EU bends over and takes it like a man...

Originally posted by Clodfobble
So how do you account for the fact that terrorists could enter the country through seemingly innocuous countries? It's not the Swiss or the Englishman they're worried about, it's the Arab who flew into Switzerland first. Should we just be fair and check no one at the borders?

The Arab may go to Switzerland and hop a SwissAir flight from Zurich to New York, but believe me, neither the Swiss nor any other Euopean nation are going to grant him a passport from their country for his pains. The times being what they are, I can understand how the people at immigration and customs might go over that Arab's documents with a fine toothed comb, but to do the same to a Swiss or any other European national? Its ridiculous, not to mention petty and arrogant on the part of the US (as well as a waste of time and the tax payers' dollar when they should be checking for far more likely bad guys). And just as an aside, if I were a foreign national bent on doing the US harm, I would not blithely fly into O'Hare or LaGuardia or Washington National. I would fly to Mexico instead and then cross the border unnoticed from there.