As I write this I am hunkered down in a hotel room with a view of the snow covered, St. Lawrence River and beyond it, Canada. So it is ironic, to me anyway, that this is the week that Senator Joseph Lieberman speaks out about the atrocious lack of security along or northern border. I yelled about this very issue for years when I hosted my radio program. I feel like Bruce Willis in the first Die Hard movie “Welcome to the party pal!”
Lieberman says the security along the northern border of the United States is “absolutely alarming” and leaves the American public “grossly unprotected.” He’s right.
The sad truth is that our problem with our northern border is just like our problem with Social Security. Everyone knows that something must to be done but most of our leaders chose to ignore it because the solution involves a lot of hard work, time, and money, and the situation hasn’t reached the catastrophic stage yet so they feel we have time.
But rest assured, the day after someone walks across one of the four thousand virtually unprotected miles of our northern border and blows something up, the question on the lips of many will be, “How did we let this happen?” We are letting it happen right now by not making border security a priority in the north as well as in the south.
Former President George W. Bush made his case for preemptive military action by saying, “”If you wait until the threat is eminent it’s too late.” He was right.
Let us not wait until we see smoke on the horizon before taking preemptive measures to protect our borders.
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