November 23, 2006

See Dubya, On The Border

One of TJR’s founding fathers tears into the border security issue. I’ll just get out of his way.

See Dubya at Junkyard Blog: There is a principled, intellectually honest case to be made for increasing the security of America's borders. Part of it is pretty obvious to those of us aware of the simple need to keep terrorists, criminals, and drugs out. And, um, the freakin' Mexican Army. There is a more abstract point, though also a critical one, about whether America has the guts to act like a sovereign nation and do what sovereign nations do….

…But most of them are simply people who disagree with me--they are people who have thought about the issue and weigh the risks and costs differently than I do. They're loyal Americans and they want what's best for the country. They just happen to be wrong about it--and, I think, dangerously so.

I'm talking to you, Tom Tancredo. And I'm talking to you, Hot Air commenters. You guys are waving around the link to this government site like a bunch of "No Blood For Oil" Moonbats pointing to a PNAC memo. It proves just about as much, too. Oooh, they have a website! So I guess that means I'm going to get issued my mandatory sombrero any day now.

I'm even talking to you, Andy McCarthy, who ought to know better. The Council on Foreign Relations drafted a paper saying something ridiculous? Dude, that's what they do. Get together and draft dumb internationalist ideas, and squint and frown and wear pinstripes.

Look, the case for tight borders sells itself. It sold me. You don't need to believe in these goofy Bilderberger conspiracy theories to realize that knowing who and what comes over the border--and stopping some of it--is probably a good idea. Spouting this hogwash makes the entire movement look like a bunch of nuts.

Also See Hot Air and Blue Crab Boulevard.