01-09-2004, 10:42 AM
kandrathe,Jan 9 2004, 05:06 AM Wrote:Good point. The agreements that the US has with those 27 nations allows US citizens to travel unhindered with a US passport, and vice versa. Their is a level of trust given and controls in place for getting a US passport, but maybe not enough.Not just that, but those 27 countries will have similar requirements for passports as here, no criminal convictions etc.
I'm not against these new measures (not that my opion counts :P ), and I don't think that they are extreme, but I do doubt their usefulness. Would they have stopped the 11/9 attacks?
Playing devils advocate for a moment I think that the best way to protect the U.S. would be to take a racist policy of exclusion (or increased checking), which may seem 'unfair' but in terms of practicality would make sense. (I doubt it would contravene the US constitution since that applies only to its own citizens?)