NoBoxes

Terrorists don't mass, they operate in small cells or individually. Insurgents mass (like illegal aliens in the US recently). You don't seem to be astute enough to differentiate between the two. That's why you don't recognize the concerns of people who are. This is evident in your massing of words when you post. You equate numbers to strength and in a technology driven world it is not always so.

I've worked in Central America, it (like other poverty stricken areas) is fertile ground for the recruitment of terrorists. Recruits needn't even have an anti-US agenda. They may simply be unknowing; but, willing dupes in smuggling terrorists' needs (e.g. radioactive dust for use in a dirty bomb) across our border. The threat is real; but, you have sought to obscure it because the numbers are statistically insignificant. That's your spin when most everyone else recognizes that it took only a handful of operatives to bring down the World Trade Center, damage the Pentagon, and make a run for Washington DC.

Your rhetoric is predicated entirely upon problem solving. In the real world, we DO treat problems symptomatically (e.g. medicine) until a cure is found. Again, you don't seem astute enough to differentiate between short term and long term interventions. My perspectives come from real world experience: NO ONE else hands them to me, including you. The pen is indeed mightier than the sword; however, in your hands it's just a waist of good ink. Please continue to filibuster threads here, your impotency amuses me.