Tigress,
I understand your frustration more than you know.
Answers? I can't see many if any other than what is probably coming. Its not a matter of if it is a matter of when. There will be an attack here in the U.S. before we know it. Quite possibly a HUGE one compared to the last one.
You said in one of your posts to "Protect you". There are as Mark mentioned many doing that now. But here in the U.S. there is also many doing it in other ways. But , you are and never will be totally protected.
It's the nature of this country and the way things set up. I personally don't feel one bit infringed upon as far as my Rights are concerned. My freedoms don't seem to have suffered one bit.
But to hear some tell it we're one step from a police state.
I was taught many years ago by my Mom.....A mans job is to protect his wife or women in general. Without going into detail I live that way in my marriage. My wife is my life. My daughter is as well. My life to pretect thiers anyday.
Things within the male/female relationship is much differant now.
Anyway....Until this country decides to really fight the war on terrorism no matter how messy , we will suffer attacks. Not always on the scale of 9-11's and some even BIGGER and far worst.
Perhaps it is the nature of opposing cultures. 1 must pretty much wipe the other out before things can calm down. Then , over years and centuries it builds to a head again and another big war happens.
I have no answers for this other than my very narrow minded vision of what I think "I" would do if I had the power.