text: I truly don't see why we should have to choose.  Many of the homeland security issues are a direct outflow of isolationist and/or imperialistic foreign policies which have caused nations to become envious and to fear and loathe us.  That is from where insecurity and terrorism emerges.  Quite frankly, if our federal government would make better choices, and not perpetually make America-centric policies to the detriment of the less-developed peoples of the world, we could go back to feeling far more secure without the constant infringements of our Constitutionally-derived and Constitutionally-protected privacy by the same government.