Border Security

According to various news reports a contingent of National Guardsmen manning the Arizona border was forced to retreat due to gunfire from gunmen in Mexico (http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/borderstory0104-CR.html). Pretty disgusting isn't it? Not only were our servicemen (some of whom are Iraq War vets) forced to retreat, but this is what our national security has come to...For those of you who don't remember, Bush authorized the deployment of 6,000 unarmed National Guardsmen on the Mexican border to "assist" the US Border Patrol in securing our terroritory. So what deterrence is deploying unarmed soldiers going to have on those intending harm on Americans? From this most recent incident, absolutely none whatsoever...If this is what the country wants, then let's just go ahead and let everyone in....illegals, terrorists, drug smugglers, criminals, etc. Send the Guardsment home to their families....Instead of a wall, why don't we just build a Mile Wide Neon Sign (in Spanish and Arabic of course) saying: "US Border: Enter Here". Our leaders have failed us...plain and simple. It is precisely the half-assed approach to military operations and National Security that will inevitably result in more dead Americans on our streets. I don't need a prediction from God to tell me that....if our own troops are running from gunmen on our borders, MARK MY WORDS: 9/11 WILL HAPPEN AGAIN.