The War on Terror

>Billions for Defense Not Trillions To Conquer and Occupy other Nations

>International Police and Intelligence Operation

>Better Internal Security: Airports, Seaports, Critical Facilities

Terrorists are covertly active in many nations.  The attack on 9/11/2001 was planned in Hamburg, Germany.   We cannot invade, conquer, and occupy every nation where terrorists reside.   As we are painfully aware, being an occupier is very costly in lives and money and its benefits in reducing the likelihood of terrorist attacks on this country are negligible.   When we occupy nations, we create resentment which translates into increased terrorist threats against us. We must work smarter.

The War on Terror must be primarily an international police effort.  We must cooperate with other friendly nations' police and intelligence organizations.  In unfriendly nations and ungoverned areas such as Somalia, we must rely primarily on the CIA.  As needed we should make short term use of relatively small military special forces units and very selective air attacks.  The costs of these efforts will be a few billion dollars instead of the trillions we have spent occupying Iraq and Afghanistan.

We should spend additional billions on internal security.  We should better secure our airports, sea ports,  nuclear facilities, chemical plants, etc.   We should place more emphasis on internal detection of terrorist activities and the improvement of first responder capabilities in the event of a terrorist attack.