Security for us or from us?
Today, the man we are duty bound to honor and respect has signed into law the open allowance of torture and indefinite imprisonment without right of defense, review or oversight. This sort of behavior images that of the "evil" countries we were educated about as children and young adults. My question now is if they were all that "evil" or were their motives as justified as our current ruling party's?

Throughout the last twenty or so years, we've declared "war" on one thing or the other. It started with the "War on drugs" if I remember correctly. Perhaps we can all agree the troops have drifted from the front lines on that one. We declared "war" on poverty and childhood obesity and the list goes on.
The point of this paragraph is twofold. First, you have to have a clearly defined enemy that can be overcome, disarmed and re-educated or slaughtered to the last living combatant. Second, you must invest the correct resources, intellect of force and compassion to control the suffering of innocents, clearly defined operational goals and tenacity to complete the task.

The terrorism we fear is not a war. It consists of single gruesome crimes committed by individuals. As skewed as they are to our culture, they are crimes driven by ideals. Thousands of young men have been persuaded to commit thousands of separate murder-suicides. Had this been a localized or simple matter (such as a "war"), thousands of people wouldn't have acted in the most violent and gruesome manner.

I want to ask a question that has yet to be clearly answered. I want to know WHY they are killing themselves by the thousands.
We can continue to pacify ourselves with foolishness such as "They hate our freedoms" but our Constitution has been erased and re-written to the point that the basis of American freedoms are no more.

Perhaps I should ask what the trees look like from outside of the forest?