Historically
Home grown terrorists have been a bigger threat than external terrorists. Realistically, why not defend against both?
Historically, external terrorists have killed more people than home grown terrorists.
This is one of the rare occasions where Boguswinger is correct.......but not the way HE thinks.
Boguswinger and I agree completely that whereas in historical terms this might be a moot question, i.e., Genghiz Khan rampaging thru a large part of this planet wiped out countries as bug spray wipes out insects and therefore as an EXTERNAL ENEMY he was indisputably the poster boy for the External Enemy being the more dangerous enemy than an Internal one.
But, in so far as the other side of the story is concerned, and that directly applies to our nation....Boguswinger and I agree to a point.
Here is Marcus Tulius Cicero's take on this issue:
Marcus Tullius Cicero's Quote:
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."
Now, where Boguswinger and I will disagree COMPLETELY is that in PRESENT DAY AMERICA.....LIEberrhoids are the ENEMY WITHIN.....and the MARXIST Obami Salaami, and his Obamarrhoidal LIEbturd stooges (one of which is Boguswinger) are BY FAR more dangerous than Al Queda.....or even ISLAM (armed with nukes) in the near future.
Why ?
Answer: Eventually Islam like Fascsim (but a helluva lot more INSIDIOUSLY DANGEROUS) will be defeated by World rationality.
But, if MARXIST Obami Salaami, and his Obamarrhoidal LIEbturd stooges get another term.....then Obami Salaami's so-called (still relatively innocuous) "SOCIALISM" will be established as FULL BLOWN COMMUNISM......and THAT is a helluva lot more dangerous proposition than Al Queda, or even ISLAM armed with nukes to be gotten rid of.