[Davros]

Simple really Sir G, but better answering a question with a question. Do you see us winning a terror based campaign against muslim fundamentalism ever?

If you can't answer that in the positive then there wil always be a need for this sort of security measure. Now if the US is succesful in stopping more majot attocks on its shores through measures like this then it will be the efectiveness of the measures that gets adopted in like minded countries. If the US fails to stop a major attack then other nations like OZ and Britian will say "at the very least we need to be putting in the US system - it's not perfect but it must be better than nothing".

On the "tit for tat" front, there will be a lot of political parties that will make mileage in election years out of the concept of doing to Americans (ie fingerprinting) what they would have done to us. People of the world don't like in general the concept of someone getting a poorer deal on things. Never understimate the political will for the "evener-upper".

So there you go - that is why I say it is too late and that this thing will gain more and more momentum. My thinking something doesn't make it right, but if looks like a duck and it sounds like a duck then it's probably a duck. [img]smile.gif[/img]