I find it a bit odd that a man like Mayor Giuliani who used to be in such lockstep with law enforcement has taken an international approach when America’s crimes rates have been rising drastically in the last several years. Guess what kind of jobs our troops have? A good number of them proportionally are in law enforcement. So when we take more troops and put them on the streets of Iraq to police that country and protect their borders we are weakening the force in our own country.
This should not come as a surprise to some people. However the tough talking imperialistic types who cry so often about protecting the borders and crime in their cities (which seems a bit ironic) need to realize that we have in fact increased the security threat of this country not by creating more terrorists (which is hard to measure) but we have increased the security threat because we have to pull police off the streets to fight and police Iraq and protect their borders. We haven’t been able to do it properly here so there is no reason to expect that we will in Iraq. So the concept of cutting our losses and reinforcing the United States while leaving some non-law enforcement employed troops around Iraq to surgically strike terror cells seems to be that best option. Local law enforcement should be priority number one when it comes to the security of the United States.
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