I'm thinking that the Iranians know this too. It's to their benefit if they can make us move before we're ready. In fact so long as we're "out of prime position" this way with troops in places like Korea and spread out elsewhere in areas that are not too easy to deploy from, this is a prime time to hit us again on our own soil. Hence the warnings from Mossad1967.
Withdrawing to the Homeland, is a sure bet that they are looking at the next 911 and want to be able to respond; either to the borders or to the "HOT ZONES" of whatever type that may happen to be. AQ will want to strike and perhaps globally before we can marshal our defenses here. I don't think they really fear our DHS or federal agencies at least in the arena of combat. But they worry about our military forces, IMHO. They know that deployments have stretched us dangerously thin and that local, state and federal cops, in all likelihood won't fight to engage and destroy AQ forces here on home soil. SWAT guys will, but there are not legions of them to be had. Even SWAT will react to training and that's not combat. That may be a misperception on my part, but I'll bet AQ has the same mindset.
They're not sweating our LEO's. Oh they respect the intell guys that manage to sweep them up before they can strike! But in toe to toe war, I think THEY think they can outfight the cops. With noncombatants (American civilians) in the line of fire they may be correct. I remember a movie with that commie Clooney called The Peacemaker where a police sniper wouldn't take a greenlight on a terrorist with a suitcase nuke, because a little girl would have to die first. I'm afraid a lot of cops will react the same way.
I agree with you 100%. It's good to know, though, that cops everywhere are being retrained to go for headshots because of homicide bombers.
Look at the resources we throw at every abandoned bag or package. How are we going to deal with multiple events?
JM, do you know if there is any SWAT retraining similar to that mentioned above?
I think that the police and the population at large are going to work together. I wouldn't be surprised to see mass deputizations in the event of an emergency. The ultimate power, (here anyway), lies with the Sheriff. As an example, check out this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1193642/posts
i THINK you are terribly and sadly far toooooo right on target--very correct in your assessment.
Sigh.
Prayers!
BTW, Please consider post 161 on this UFO thread. It's Stephen Greer's latest doc in WORLD AFFAIRS JRNL.
He's asserting that the illegal shadow government's control over the energy technologies and UFO technologies has functionally resulted in more destructive terrorism against the welfare of the planet than the Jihadi terrorists. I guess little does he guess that they are all ran by the same puppet masters.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1193516/posts?page=161#161