Gotta read these

I can't add anything, just have to say "Amen" to Sheldon Richman's "Ten Lessons from 9/11" and Roderick Long's "Five Years After," two succinct summaries of the mess we're in.

As Long says: "By the logic of the situation, government restrictions will always increase. When restriction A makes one tactic more difficult, the terrorists switch to a different tactic, so the government imposes restriction B – but, of course, doesn’t remove restriction A. Given the massive variety of tactics for terrorists to switch among, this process has no natural endpoint short of total government control over every aspect of life."

Thanks to that proudly vulgar libertarian Wally C for sending me to these links.