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"[bin Laden] understood that one tool he had in waging war against the United States was to drive us crazy, into bankruptcy, trying to defend ourselves against every conceivable threat,” Mr. Chertoff said at a hearing of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “We have to be realistic about what we expect and what we do. We do have limits, and we do have choices to make.” From http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/washington/13chertoff.html

I sure am happy people are starting to realize that we cannot be absolutely safe no matter how much we spend, or that even if we could, it would not be worth the sacrifice.

The next step is realizing that we cannot be absolutely safe no matter how many of our civil liberties we give up - no matter how much they tap our phones and watch our bank accounts. More importantly, the incremental increase in safety is not worth the sacrifice.