Wednesday, April 15, 2015

If ISIS is Eight Miles from Our Border, What are Doing to Stop it?

   Fox News, among others, is reporting Islamic State forces are within eight miles of our southern border. I would guess the report might not be true, for, if it were, it seems every news outlet would be on the story.
 Still, supposing it is true, what should the U.S. do? If the State Department and Department and Homeland Security have verified it, what is the proper action? Immediate deployment of troops all along the border? And, if so, how to we keep our troops from becoming targets? Or, do we fill the skies with surveillance and attack aircraft, though keeping them out of reach of possible missiles?
  Or, do we handle this as we do any other illegal border entry?  I would hope not. To put all border crossings in same bucket is blind. Surely, we can see the need to divide the entry of terrorists and criminals from the entry of farmers and laborers.
   For this threat (ISIS), I like the idea of the fly-overs. And, it would be nice to have a timely invention. How about a battery of cameras capable of taking pictures of every stretch of ground in the swath of the jet as it passes over? And, a computer that analyzes the pictures on the spot and identifies humans and gives the coordinates for them? While we may not have such a thing, I would not be surprised if the technology exists to create it. It would have been wonderful to have had such a thing as we deployed planes in Iraq recently.
 

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