Wretchard: If someone like the Russians wanted to stampede America into a panic they could have delivered enough envelopes to random persons to kill 500 people.

We would just suspend mail delivery in the US (while the missiles were flying to Russia in retaliation). The only thing I get in my mailbox is offers from “Fred’s Bank” to re-finance my home anyway. I pay all my bills electronically.

Alexis: Islamists are the kind of folks who, if you flee from them, follow you to wherever you are.

Solution: In addition to 100% inspection of shipping containers (pushed, by the way, by Democrat Senator Patty Murray), and a border fence, no one comes to this country, for any reason, if their passport originated in a majority Muslim country, unless they are a diplomat (and even that concession should be revoked by relocating the United Nations to The Hague). If they show up at Customs, they get turned right around. This means no more Olympic games in America, of course, but so be it, war is hell.