ESSAY
"Is Homeland Security Really Enough?"

Categories

Matthew Messinger

March 18, 2003

World

National

Politics

Iraq/Iraqi war

Military

Security

Terrorism

Second nature

Technological fix

Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"With the growing reality that war with Iraq is inevitable, the leaders of the United States must evaluate the risk such war would bring to US soil.  After reading an article in the NY Times that, on a very superficial level, analyzed the state of homeland security, I am forced to wonder what, if anything the Homeland Security can do to protect the United States?...
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Is the United States, with its Homeland Security defense, ready to fight this war? Our military is in the mid-east, but is the war really going to be on US soil?"

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