Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.