"9/11 is over"

The NY Times ran a great Op-Ed piece by Thomas Friedman on Sunday about why it's high time we stop re-living 9/11. In lieu of hunting down the criminals, the Bush administration's response has been to wall us off from rest of the world with regulations that are destroying our economy (not to mention our civil liberties). It appears that Giuliani, the presumptive Republican candidate in 2008, has decided to run on a similar fear-based platform.

Friedman writes that earlier this year, "Microsoft, fed up with American restrictions on importing brain talent, opened its newest software development center in Vancouver." If we continue to respond to the world in fear we can look forward to a day when Chinese and Indian companies come over here to hire cheap labor.