You mean all the things just as hard to get as a passport, some invented specifically to be used for this new program? Sure, I guess you could get one of those instead. But there's no reason to get one of them rather than a passport except as a fig leaf for people to say a passport "isn't mandatory".
Or, and bear with me for a second, we could have kept freedoms we had on September 10th, 2001.
Or, and bear with me for a second, we could have kept freedoms we had on September 10th, 2001.