Mark K, Mark L can obviously speak for himself, but I imagine if someone were evaluating candidates on immigration credentials without accounting for the changed circumstances of 9/11, you would aptly be taking that person to task for a serious omission. I thought Bush’s positions on secret evidence and profiling were wrong in 2000, but they are comparative trifles next to Paul’s wholesale rejection of our current counterterrorism policy — and occasional suggestions that we have ourselves to blame for jihadist atrocities — in the wake of 9/11. I just don’t see how the two compare.