The difference is fundamental...if you don't like the domestic security programs, an election looms. Go vote. You cannot, however, vote away an exterior threat. It does not go away if you ignore it, either.
It is the height of folly to use some unsatisfactory domestic issues (CFR, for heaven's sake?) as an excuse for ignoring a threat to our nation as a whole. I'll bet that plenty of those who do so also guarantee such problems in the first place by continually tossing votes to unelectable third party gadflies, which, you may notice, has had the ultimate result of weakening the President's hand at this critical time.
As previously stated: self-centeredness on parade.
