President Bush has yet to actually announce his plan for border security, though two White House officials have already given the press a heads’ up. That led to a response for nearly everyone who considers their opinion important, and this morning as I lay awake in my bed, unable to fall back to sleep, I hear this ridiculous statement by the Republican senator from Nebraska, Chuck Hagel:
…what in the world are we talking about here, sending a National Guard that we may not have any capacity to send up to or down to protect borders? That’s not their role.
Beg your pardon, sir, but I believe the National Guard’s responsibility actually is to protect the domestic front. It’s simply that, in recent times, we have yet to really fight battles here on our turf, so they’ve been used mainly for peacekeeping duties. Which is what I perceive they will be doing on the Mexican border, since there will be a whole lot of people that lose their cool if the border continues to be a revolving door.
I personally enjoy the statement given by the senator from my own fine state, Bill Frist:
First and foremost, secure the border, whatever it takes. Everything else we’ve done has failed. We’ve got to face that.
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