american empire

[leo9]

The worst thing about 9/11 is the damage caused to America's travel/holiday industry, exacerbated by the President's "War on Tourism".

You mean, worse than the destruction of Iraq, the draining of the US economy, the shredding of civil rights at home and abroad or the ruination of America's reputation around the world?

But I guess you could argue that all those things would have happened without 9/11, since it's now an open secret that Bush already had plans in place to be a "war president" and would have found some other pretext if Bin Laden hadn't obliged.

[Matin]

so we have sacrificed our civil liberties in exchange for an increased sense of security.

is this trend reversibe? should it be reversed?

is it possible to increase security without losing our rights?

and finally the question that really scares me; will the politicians, having grown accustomed to their control, ever let that measure of oversight go?