Trying Terrorists in Our Courts and Who the heck needs a Super Rail System

Are terrorists common criminals? Or are they something else? Do the Democrats understand the difference between planes flying into the World Trade Center and a robbery at a bodega or a bank? Do enemy combatants deserve the guarentees of our constitution? If they do, why? Does an enemy combatant have the right to remain silent? What responsibilities does our government have when it detains an enemy soldier? The democrats never acknowledged the war between radical Islamists and this country, they won the election, so did they have an obligation to protect it against enemy combatants that they did not recognize as such? When President Obama declared the war was over, that he was repatriating enemy combatants, that there was no war on terror, because he said so, was he required to protect this country against the attacks that came after his declaration? Clearly, he saw no purpose in doing that, which is why he hired an incompetent to run Homeland Security and to coordinate the war that he did not believe existed. Is he absolved of blame in the Fort Hood masacre? What adjustments were made following that? Are there still no soldiers on domestic armed forces bases not carrying weapons? Where are the domestic heads that should have rolled in the case of the failed Christmas Attack? Do they get another chance to fail? Does a plane have to fall out of the sky before this president gets it? What about President Obama's visit to the Republican Caucus? What is the meaning of that? Did he accept any blame for the failures of the passed year, or did he just blame his opponents again? Where is the policy that will make us energy independent in five years? What is building a national railway about? Isn't it just another policy which will lock us into a level of dependence on government, that none of us wants. Some years ago, I read a NY Times article about the Railway system of the USSR, and it spoke about a rural province which had recquistioned an engine for its local line in 1948, the article was written in 1968, because of the bureaucracy in the USSR at that time, the engine never came because some intervening bureaucrat somewhere between Moscow and the rural province, would always appropriate the engine. When I read that article, I knew, as Ronald Reagan knew, that the Soviet Union was going to implode due to its top heavy infrastructure. This is what Mr. Obama has planned for us. Why? It hasn't worked, we watched the experiment for 75 years, it didn't work in Russia, why should it work here? Our system has enabled us to have the most choices of any country. I don't want a super rail system run by our government, that is not the solution to our national debt, that is not how Americans will get back to work. Our country is where it is because no large group can stop it, the dispersal of our goods and services happen because of independent truckers who run on fuel. Develop alternate fuel sources, allow the truckers to keep on trucking, develop better trucks, do not replace them with trains. If our trains go on strike, when they have run the trucks out of business, we will begin to experience the sorts of shortages that we have heard about in places like Russia and France, where nationalized railways, mean unions or centralized bureaucrats which have a monopoly on how goods are delivered can decide on what is expedient for areas that they don't know much about. This centralization is a death knell for efficient delivery of goods, this sort of centralization will kill the entrepreneurial spirit that inhabits every truck driver's cab. If one train engineer does the work that fifty truck drivers do, is that better for our economy? Goods might be delivered less expensively, but maybe not, if the system gets centralized what happens when some terrorist sabotages the system? How much does it cost then, if the only system you have is somehow shut down? In France or England, Unions periodically shut the country down for their own ends, do we need that sort of management here? What makes this country incredibly resilient is our super highways and our super independent truckers. If some truckers go on strike, there are others who will work, if one truck breaks down, another will pick up the produce. This does not only mean food stuffs, this is everything that is produced in this country, including furniture, clothes, computers, and anything else you can think of. Do we really want a centralized system with some sort of bureaucratic control over it? Thank you Mr. Obama, that's another one of your liberal thoughts that I don't particularly think will work here.