I would just like to point out that the UK suffered through MANY terrorist attacks, courtesy of the conflict in Northern Ireland, and while they may not have been to the same scale as the WTC attacks, the UK was far more reasonable and measured in its response (with little of the US's injured ego kneejerk reaction) than the US has been.
As a holder of both UK and US citizenship, I have to say that despite its outrageous cost, UK security precautions with regard to immigration are FAR more sensible than the US's, which treats EVERYONE entering the country as a terrorist. As anhedoniac points out below, the suicide bombers of September 11 were here legally on student visas with no red flags that would have brought them up even WITH these new regulations. Oh, and our own homegrown bomber, McVeigh, certainly wouldn't have come up on the system either...the new law will essentially have no effect at all except to decrease tourism and further reinforce the notion that the US is a massively reactionary, insulationist country that thinks everyone who isn't American is inherently dangerous (despite the majority of us who ARE American originally coming from somewhere else in the first place).
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Date: 2008-06-15 03:09 pm (UTC)As a holder of both UK and US citizenship, I have to say that despite its outrageous cost, UK security precautions with regard to immigration are FAR more sensible than the US's, which treats EVERYONE entering the country as a terrorist. As