Kamel,
You believe my distaste for the current occupant of the White House is incompatible with love of country. I believe the opposite is true. Anyone who is satisfied with the current occupant is someone who cares not for the USA.
As I acknowledged above, there are violent religious fanatics all over the world. Some of them bomb our troops in the middle east. Some of them bomb abortion clinics in the USA. Some of them bomb public spaces throughout Europe. Some of them bomb villages in the hinterlands of Pakistan. They are simply violent criminals clad in religious language.
In most cases, police-work would be the appropriate and responsible way to prevent these attacks. If the warnings given by the intelligence agencies hadn’t been ignored by GWB, 9/11 would have been easily averted. We have had the tools to prevent these attacks all along, but instead we have provoked massive retaliation by invading and occupying sovereign nations under false pretenses.
The police force now known as the Homeland Security Administration is the organ responsible for removing this threat – the military is not equipped to do this work properly. Offenders would be tried where they are criminally liable – local jurisdictions can handle these criminals perfectly well. We all know that rendition and torture are counterproductive, and that military courts are not the appropriate place to try non-military criminals.
Let me know when the invaders get here. The idea that the USA will be conquered by kids with pipe bombs is laughable. There is no military threat to national security from religious fanatics, aside from the current commander in chief.
The so-called terrorists don’t have the means to invade and subdue the USA. If we wage war against the people of the middle east, we are the one side making the war.
Think about it.
Peace.
DS
