National Security

The federal government's greatest responsibility is to protect our nation, our people, our freedoms, our way of life, and our constitution from those who would want to conquer or destroy us.

In this century we have a new enemy: terrorists. This enemy is not the traditional fixed country that we can attack, but a group of cowardly people who hide among civilians and wage war on innocent people. This enemy does not attack military targets, but shopping malls and children’s school buses. They do this in hopes we will bow to their blackmail and give them what they want. Then they hide behind other innocent civilians so we cannot attack them.

We cannot allow this enemy to frustrate us or cause us to give in to them. We must develop a new strategy to track down these people, regardless of what country they hide in and capture or kill them. These terrorists are not members of a regular army and, under the Geneva Convention. They can be tried by military tribunal, and, if found guilty of operating outside of regular forces, they can (and should) be executed. This is what we need to do to discourage other terrorists. We need to attack their training camps, regardless of the country in which they are found. We must keep them occupied and destroy them in their own country so they are not able to attack us in our country. Part of this is securing of our borders is so they cannot enter the U.S. to hurt us or our children.

A continued threat to world peace (and, therefore, us) is North Korea. Sanctions do not seem to be working. Perhaps encouraging the North Korean people or military to overthrow the existing regime and trade their nuclear weapons and materials for commercial goods, credit, and help rebuilding their nation (with materials purchased from the U.S., of course) would have better results.

The same can be said of Iran. The people of these countries need to know that if they choose to rebel against their dictatorial governments, the United States will back them up and gladly assist them in setting up a representative type of government. A free and stable world encourages better economic times.