Monday, May 31, 2004
How to increase our national security
I am not happy with what the Bush administration is doing to protect our national interests and safety. I suggest a few alternative ideas:
- Energy independence: I rode around in a friend's Toyota Prius yesterday. Instead of giving huge tax breaks to people who buy SUVs, reward people for buying fuel efficient cars.
- Create a large scale Peace Corps: do everything we can to restore our international image and try to regain at least some trust in the international community.
- Trust the professionals in our military and intelligence agencies and use Congressional oversite where public transparency can not be used for security reasons.
- Allow government agencies to collect data to fight terrorism, but recognize that we want to remain a free society: insist that judges are consulted for search warrents, permission to invade privacy, etc. Also use Congressional oversite.
# posted by Mark Watson, author and consultant : 7:29 AM
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