Homeland Security Agencies Wasted Money On Seminars Like “Did Jesus Die for Klingons Too?”, Training for a “Zombie Apocalypse” and Launching Wars for Oil Instead of Actually Focusing on Anti-Terror Efforts

While We’re Waiting to Learn Who the Boston Terrorists Were … Let’s Review How Stupid Our Anti-Terrorism Policies Have Been

While we are waiting to find out who carried out the Boston terror attack, it is worth reflecting on one important fact …

America’s anti-terrorism policies since 9/11 have been a dismal failure.

Why?

Wasted Homeland Security Funding

Initially, a large amount of the homeland security spending has been wasted … producing “a bunch of crap”.

For example, spending money on zombie apocalypse training  or other silly programs is a bad investment which led to a false sense of security.

Spending defense money on a workshop called “Did Jesus die for Klingons too?” and DOD-run microbreweries is probably not helping stop terrorist attacks.

Moreover, using homeland security resources to spy on average Americans or crack down on peaceful protesters or government critics distracts from getting the actual bad guys.

At the same time, both the Bush and Obama administrations have slashed funding for programs which would actually help prevent terror attacks.

If we had spent the money and deployed the resources on focused anti-terror efforts, we would be in a better position today.

Our Wars In the Middle East Have Created More Terrorists

Moreover, security experts – including both conservatives and liberals – agree that waging war in the Middle East weakens national security and increases terrorism. See this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this.

Ooops.

Killing innocent civilians is one of the main things which increases terrorism. As one of the top counter-terrorism experts (the former number 2 counter-terrorism expert at the State Department) told me, starting wars against states which do not pose an imminent threat to America’s national security increases the threat of terrorism because:

One of the principal causes of terrorism is injuries to people and families.

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