Sheldon Richman: National security: The Big fraud

  The hand-wringing about the would-be Christmas Day airplane bomber and the politicians’ tiresome declarations that it will never happen again miss the point: As long as the U.S. government pursues its imperial program of invasion, regime change, occupation, and sponsorship of corrupt governments in the Muslim world, Americans will be targets for avengers. This does not excuse the killing of innocents — it merely points out an inevitable chain of events.

  It’s either foreign intervention and retaliatory terrorism or nonintervention and security. There’s no third way.