Homegrown Terrorism

Well, this is just great. According to a panel of experts of Friday, the United States not only has a harder to predict, more homegrown threat today than nine years ago, but we are not even prepped enough to deal with it. What we are likely to see is more small scale attacks. Not that any terrorist attcak is small. Lee Hamilton, of the 9-11 Commission, and a Democrat, has said that there are "other things that still need to be done to make the country safer." Perhaps the most troubling thing was the Time Square Bombing. While it was a failure, it has also proven that the old sterotype of the terrorist being a loner, being poor, being uneducated, these beliefs no longer hold up. All we can hope is that, with time, our defense gets ramped up, starting with extra training and funding for police, an expansion of how many are in the service.