United States kicked in the balls

Today has been the most incredible day. I didn't want to think the US could ever be a huge target like it was today.. I woke up at 9 Pacific time and the tv was blaring away about America Under Attack. Saw the images of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers, the pictures of the Pentagon, the pictures of the plane near Pittsburgh. Saw the fires, the people falling from the buildings, the clouds of smoke and papers. Words don't describe how I feel.. I've been on the verge of tears all day. I don't know if I'm supposed to stop and cry because it's my country, and this attack could have been on anywhere in the United States, or if I'm just supposed to say "oh well" and go about my daily business. It's just so bizarre.. this is my country. This is where I live.My hurt has started to turn to anger, as I look at how stupid the US can be to allow these four tragedies to occur in the first place. How is it that four different security slips occur, within hours of eachother, on the same coast? How can four planes be hijacked at the same time and be used against the country in which owns and runs them? How can American citizens be used as a missle against their own fellow citizens? How did this all happen with the planes being tracked on radar? Isn't there restricted air over the Pentagon? Then after the fact, we were given details about where the President and Vice President were, and updates on where our local military people were headed, and this and that. Gee, any terrorists with CNN can see exactly what the US is doing. A lot of the US was shut down today, but I don't think a day is enough. It's amazing how security just goes downhill after a couple of hours fly by..Another problem that I see is how easily we let people into our country to begin with. People in Canada (and I'm not dissing on Canada, I love our little neighbors to the North) can just come across the border (like the guy with explosives in his car who wanted to blow up the Space Needle) and also across the Mexican border. People fly into our country all the time from all over the world on Visa's and they're just free to frolic all they want. That's dangerous. I just hope Bush actually does something about this, and not let the past attacks on our embassy's, ships, and today's tragedy go unpunished and allow terrorists to go on about their merry way of violence and hatred, with their arrogant attitudes. The world could easily have another war on its hands.. which is scary. I just cannot believe the terrorists have not been squashed yet. You see them on the news shooting their guns and celebrating.. and it makes me want to shove their own weapons in their mouths and give them something to really chew on.Lets just hope our country beefs up security PERMANENTLY, and we check into incoming visitors more closely. I don't think anyone from the suspected terrorist countries should be allowed into the US until wah-his-name is captured. I think the US should also make it clear that they will bomb whatever country is harboring the suspected terrorists, so people will push the culprit out where he/she/they/it have nowhere to hide.Inside of myself I give thoughts of prayer to the poor people at the center of this mess.. and I pray the US has brains enough to defend itself, and do so in a decent manner for the rest of time.