Donald Trump, reacting to the recent terror attacks, called on the government and law enforcement to fight, McCarthy-like, the "cancer from within.' He then went on to exclaim: "How they came into the country in the first place is beyond me.' Obviously, he believes that these and thousands of other possible (and according to him, inevitable) assailants did not undergo the "extreme vetting' that he proposed as indispensable to keep Muslim terrorists and those advocating Sharia law from entering the United States. Whether this prospective weeding out of aliens antagonistic to American values at the border would bolster our security is doubtful.  Read more