The American Terrorists

This below-the-fold story jumped out at readers of this morning's LA Times:

Case Yields Chilling Signs of Domestic Terror Plot
Arms cache in Texas leads to convictions but few answers. Critics fault focus on foreign threats.

HOUSTON — One evening two winters ago, a man in Staten Island, N.Y., absent-mindedly flipped through his mail. Inside one envelope was a stack of fake documents, including United Nations and Defense Department identification cards, and a note: "We would hate to have this fall into the wrong hands."

It had. The package, intended for a member of a self-styled militia in New Jersey, had been delivered to the wrong address.

From that lucky break, federal officials believe they may have uncovered one of the most audacious domestic terrorism plots since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people. Starting with a single piece of mail, investigators discovered an enormous cache of weapons in Noonday, in East Texas, including the makings of a sophisticated sodium cyanide bomb capable of killing thousands of people.

Chilling, yes. But the critics are a little off on this one. It's not the focus on foreign threats that have drained the resources domestically - it's (say it with me) THE WAR IN IRAQ which drained resources from everything. And the militia nuts still live among us, using the 2nd amendment as their shield.