This document tried to outline a very complex security issue with no defined bounds. I especially liked the reference to homeland security in "space," but nothing in the document addressed this point.

The document also pointed the majority of our security problem at a single ethic group several times and made zero references to other threats that are national security posture faces.

Our homeland security faces threats from items like nuclear proliferation, international espionage and economic threats from China, which will become the next super power within 20 years.

While drug trafficking does pose a small threat to our national security, it does not warrant the billions spent a year to interdict the drugs. This money should be spent on efforts to curb drug usage.

The national ID card program has me the most concerned, unless Congress enacts some privacy laws surrounding this program. The biometric information that will be collected for the program can be used for law enforcement operations. For example, the collected mathematically fingerprint template can be queried by law enforcement agencies for past criminal activity.

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