Focus should be on foreign

policy, not border security
I am appalled that after all the steps the government went through to increase national security, people can still get weapons aboard the airlines. Mr. Heatwole even e-mailed the authorities and told them, and they still took a week to check up on it. I feel that all this emphasis that the government put on national security was for absolutely nothing. What a waste of resources, considering people can still get weapons aboard airplanes. It’s absolutely ridiculous how much trouble they put travelers through and these things still happen.
This is a sign that we are approaching the situation the wrong way. Rather than trying to secure our own boarders, I think we should place our resources and emphasis on improving our foreign policy. We should try to stop pissing off countries rather than pissing them off and then trying to protect yourself waiting for them to strike back. Moreover, this shows that we can never fully protect our borders. Someone will always find a way through if they want to badly enough. We should focus more on the problem at hand, and then maybe we will get somewhere.

Andy Mean

sophomore

psychology