Does anyone else worry that we're not making arrests like this here? Surely we haven't been so effective at preventing terrorism that there are no cells here in America.

YES. Look at how quickly the Spaniards and the Brits were able to identify and arrest suspects. And apparently they were fairly successful in the detective work.

It bothers me that the US has not been more successful in finding the roots of 9-11. I'd LIKE to believe that it's happening, and we aren't hearing about it - but who can believe that? Bush was using inflated figures of terrorist arrests and convictions on the campaign trail, and I really think they'd show it off if they had more.

I would have like to have seen MUCH more detective work and a LOT less of military action against countries unrelated to Al Qaeda terrorism.

And in Afghanistan, where the military solution probably made the most sense, I would rather have seen the reconstruction conducted with the long-term aim of making it a safe stable state. I think Harper's Index had a riff on the cost of eradicating drug crops vs buying them all -- both about half a billion $, IIRC. Between the Taliban and the drug trade, it's hard for me to see how Afghanistan is the success Don Rumsfeld claims...

You are an intentionally obtuse turd. The pictures of the 9/11 Hijackers were shown the next day.

So here's my question:

How exactly does conducting war in Iraq hurt our ability to do detective work at home? I mean, one is the province of soldiers, marines et al, and the other is work done by, well, detectives.

I've heard this a lot from the left, and it frankly baffles me.

CAIR and the ACLU have done their level best to stop this sort of thing in America.

I would have to question the timing of this so-called victory. It seems to me that Australia needs to learn a thing or two about sensitivity from France about towards their economically downtrodden Muslim Immigrant community.

How exactly does conducting war in Iraq hurt our ability to do detective work at home?

It depletes the local orgone supply. We have only so many orgone generators available.

God Dammit!

The most completely fucked up stupid shit troll, turd anti-admin for the sake of it post i have come across yet.

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But I suppose UK and Spain did "better"at getting tangos (after the fact, BTW) is because they don't have, ahem, certain civil liberties.