Intergrated transportation system through major urban areas was a suggestion I saw that I would love to see. As to what to do to make the country safer?
Research, build and deploy a fleet of orbital ion cannons and then fry everything else on earth back to the Dark Ages. Only then will security be guaranteed. (Of course it goes without saying that all borders will be closed and secured and no more trade nor any contact will be made with the outside world after the deed.)
I'm actually surprised at how few people focused on terrorism, but I think that's important. I definitely agree that there is more danger from other huge states. As tragic as 9/11 was, it was really a very small number of deaths compared to what affects us as population.
I definitely think that nation-building begins at home. Best thing we can do for the rest of the world is make this nation as great as it should be. This isn't everything for fighting terrorism, but I think it's underrated in how important it can be.
Answering the question seriously i would first work on making illegal immigrants citizens (make it easier for me to track what they are doing) and then work on securing the Mexican-American border as that is a likely place terrorists could sneak a bomb into the country.
Then i would use military forces to strike particular installations in foreign countries where there is strong evidence of the prescence of terrorism (like training camps, caves, etc) but not engage in full scale invasions of those countries.
Then i would work on making other countries cooperate with America to remove terrorism from our borders
And then i would use any leftover cash to aid moderate Islamic countries in building infrastructure, and helping the people in order to stop them from becoming terrorists out of desperation
Put it all down into missile defense against ICBM during the atmospheric launch phase, through a mix of earth and space based laser weaponry. $300B would buy a pretty nasty missile/air defense me thinks. Not to mention all the offensive stuff you could park up there, think total orbital domination, everybody tries to fight and you swat everything they got in space or launch down in the first two days, there at your mercy.
A lot of people put a lot of faith in technology. I actually think that how we use our existing technology can be way more powerful. I think we need a paradigm shift in terms of the way we fight wars -- the same way that the Roman Legions led to a paradigm shift away from the Greek Phalanx.
Terrorism is the new paradigm of warfare, akin to a fleet of mosquitos in a chinashop. You can kill one easily, but it's hard to kill a lot of them without destroying everything in the store. They're also extremely hard to track.
We're still trying to kill these mosquitos like they're a pack of lions, if that makes any sense. To beat a fleet of mosquitos, I feel like we need a military solution that's as small and flexible as a fleet of mosquitos.
We're still trying to kill these mosquitos like they're a pack of lions, if that makes any sense. To beat a fleet of mosquitos, I feel like we need a military solution that's as small and flexible as a fleet of mosquitos.
Terrorism is the new paradigm of warfare, akin to a fleet of mosquitos in a chinashop. You can kill one easily, but it's hard to kill a lot of them without destroying everything in the store. They're also extremely hard to track.
Spend $100 billion or so on our intelligence services.
Information > all. A small military force in the right place is worth more than a force ten times as large in the wrong place. Wanna find Osama? One CIA spook with the right assets can do what fifty thousand soldiers can't.
We're in a war where the enemy's goal is to remain hidden until after he strikes. The way to fight them is to first find out where he is--THEN send the troops.
I think that if the Tenth Amendment was back in place, people would take a more active, responsible role in the government of this country rather than passively assuming and allowing the Federal government to "take care of things."
Threats to America are not limited to terrorists. I've argued before that apathy is one of the biggest problems in this nation (and probably in many other democratic systems around the world), and giving more power to various smaller levels of government--state, county, city, town, school district, neighborhood, whatever--and less to the monstrosity that Washington has become will force people to take a more active role in their nation's path.
Perception has a lot to do with reality. Airport screenings that violate the Fourth Amendment (I can't carry an unopened bottle of Coke through Logan?!) make people feel more aware of danger without actually making them any more secure. Waste of money and insult to freedom.
Is slipping funds to a group like the one in Swordfish an option. A group dedicated to finding and destroying terrorists, yet without the bureucratic red tape that hampers our current agencies.
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(Of course it goes without saying that all borders will be closed and secured and no more trade nor any contact will be made with the outside world after the deed.)
