Originally Posted by justageek
Do you also believe that, at this very moment, burglars are coducting passive surveilence of your house -- because "it's what [you] would be doing if [you] were a burglar"?!?
That's not really a good example. If I were a burglar, I would conduct surveillence of a house before going into it. What's your point? It might be going on, but I'm not home right now. However, the police force in my community drives through the neighborhood doing security patrols to provide a deterrence against this.
Are you implying that the US is free and clear of all terror threats? Or that terrorist are just going to execute a plan without any kind of intelligence / dry runs?