Them or Us?
November 6th, 2009 | 
Author: I’m about to fall flat on my face, yet again. Oh and put my foot in my mouth along the way. I’m graceful like that.
Yesterday when the news broke about the Fort Hood shooting my first question was “Them or us?”
That is a very tellling quesiton and one that is not altogether unreasonable.
8 years ago, we never could have imagined or prepared for an attack on our country with our own planes. They did and that meant that anything was possible. Even things we had never even dreamed or thought or considered.
If the Fort Hood shootings had taken place before September 11, we would have just assumed it was an American who had gone postal.
After September 11, it very well could have been one of them.
It is no longer unfathomable or unthinkable for the terriorist to either recruit a current member of our military, or to have one of their own enlist in our military. It’s not outside the realm of possibilities that the next attack against us, on our soil, will come from ‘within’ from ‘one of our own’.
Homeland security has been diligent in protecting our borders, with increased security at our airports. They have monitored and investigated threats and plots ag ainst America and have actually prevented some. But preventing terrorists to enter our country isn’t the most we can do.
It is possible that the terrorists will come from inside.
The fact is, it is now possible that ‘they’ could be one of ‘us’.
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To be honest, your first question was mine as well
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Becky Reply:
November 8th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
@Becky W.,
It is no longer an unreasonable question. The possibility is very real. Our security measures assume terrorists are ‘them’ when they are becoming ‘us’ every day.
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