BTW, don't you find establishment of Department of Homeland Security amusing? What is then Department of Defense defending, if not homeland?

I don't find it amusing in the least. I find it scary. ``Homeland'' is a word they used a lot in that PNAC paper I went on a harague about a while back. In addition, the fact that they use that word at all is scary. If the continental US is the ``homeland'', as I assume, then what else is it that we're defending? This goes hand-in-hand with Bush's use of the phrase ``sovereign right'' to enter Iraq in his speech announcing the ultimatum given to Iraq.

This all smacks very heavily of colonialism and imperialism. I'm not necessarily saying that it is, though I believe it to be so, but it sure does sound a hell of a lot like it. (I fear I've started another tangent.)