Meanwhile, if we have switched to domestic production, then we no longer have an interest to protect there. The Saudis and the Israelis, no one else. Certainly not us. At this point, we should trust no one, not the Saudis, Israelis,Pakistanis, or anyone except a few Americans who are beyond reproach. The Mossad worketh in strange ways, and such a case would be just what George Washington feared.
Freedom is strength only if it empowers everyone.
The problem is, we don't really have freedom. If everyone on those planes had guns and knew how to use them, the terrorists would have their hides nailed to some old grannie's barn door by now. But the simple fact is, so far as we know, only a few of our men tried to stop the terrorists. The rest of them sat and trembled in cowardice to a few guys with box cutters. Somehow, many Americans seem to have become too soft.