We've already become complacent with border security. People forget all about the thousands of mile of border that are to the north and south of the US. There's way too much shipping traffic to assume safety from an ocean route- the best way in the world to hit one of our main hubs of commerce and really kick our arses.

Paranoid? Not hardly. Just realistic. 9/11 was a long time ago in the public eye and we're past due for someone to shake and bake our awareness one more time.

However, there are constant air monitering patrols. Harder to get through security, and.......for all intesive puposes, common, were the U.S

Eclipse55 wrote:and.......for all intesive puposes, common, were the U.S

Lol, and apparently we're also "oh-so-humble".

If youre meaning for all intents and purposes youre the US, whats your point?
A man recently walked through airport security in New York with a replica beretta in his carry on luggage, an osama bin laden tshirt, a turban and a belt of hotdogs under his coat dressed up to look like dynamite. Most obvious terrorist ever, let through not because he was so obviously joking or anything, but because he was obviously a muslim AIRPORT SECURITY DIDNT WANT TO OFFEND HIS ETHNIC PATHWAYS OR ACT IN A WAY THAT COULD BE CONSTRUED AS RASCIST.
Also, the constant air monitoring in most places is a joke. Aircraft regularly entire the US that are not detected on radar. Why is this? Because by government mandate commercial radars are being phased out to introduce radars that work by picking up the carrier signal from the planes radio. This is nearly complete. So yes, the Bush administration actually ordered that radars stop detecting planes and start picking up radio triangulation tags. Which can be turned off. And they wondered how illegal items were entering the country.
@Gale Ive yet to meet a humble american and I lived there for 4 years. By which I dont mean I never met an american who said something like 'Ah Im not that great' or anything, I mean Ive never met an American who wasnt convinced both themselves and their country was invincible ><
Thats said alot of brits suffer from the same patriotism.

Well as you probably know i''m always saying random things so i will be posting here a lot,
but i have to say, wouldn't it be really weird if little people sat on goerge washingtons head?

and also, once i was reading random stuff and i saw that they invented robots that play hockey...
my question is, WHO INVENTS SOMETHING TO PLAY A GAME FOR THEM?

One, the U.S. is not "Oh, so humble"........definitly not.......(joke)......two, nothing comes close to the United States as of 2009. They are the strongest nation in the world by a llllooooooooonnnngggggggg shot.

RogueSpearofTRA wrote:Gale Ive yet to meet a humble american and I lived there for 4 years. By which I dont mean I never met an american who said something like 'Ah Im not that great' or anything, I mean Ive never met an American who wasnt convinced both themselves and their country was invincible ><.

Rogue,

I was making a joke - and you've obviously taken it seriously... And I'm American, so I take some offense to those comments =/. I don't think America is invincible. It's clearly not - no country is.

Eclipse,

I would disagree with that. We got nowhere in the War on Terror... The world has just watched in wonder in the past few years out our great feet to absolutely no accomplishment... Besides - our wars would be lost if not for the UN.

The US hasn't done so well with wars since Korea. And if it's so great, then why are the Pound and the Euro doing so much better than the dollar?