Lauderdale, that's a hair alarmist. While I agree that we need someone to defend us against terrorist, I don't think we are currently going about it the right way. We're certainly doing some things right, but there are other ways that we should also explore IN CONJUNCTION with what we are currently doing.
If you only the fight the symptoms (terrorism, extremists), the disease will continue to fester. Poverty, no education, starvation, drought...these are the diseases that cause the symptoms. We can kill extremists until we're blue in the face, but if don't address the reasons why people BECOME extremists, there will always be more.
I don't know if Kerry will do this, but I do know Bush won't. All he likes to do is blow people up. This may be needed, but we also have to attack the SUPPLY of those people that "need to be blown up." Burn the candle at both ends, as they say.