Politics: You're Kidding, Right?

I don't understand how Attorney General John Ashcroft can claim America is safer. Saying that we're a safer country because we can lock people up without charging them with a crime or because we can invade a country that represents no threat is like saying that the Soviet Union was safe because the KGB did such a good job at law enforcement and the Soviet Army didn't shy away from a fight. Ashcroft may have made America safer for white Christians, but the endless cycle of enemy-making will eventually come back to roost. It always does.