In the wake of an attempted Christmas Day terror attack on a Detroit bound airplane I have to wonder if we are taking the right approach to the terrorist threat. Our responsibility as the world’s superpower is to set an example of level justice while protecting our citizens. This puts us at a grave disadvantage when dealing with the shadowy networks of blood thirsty killers waiting in our very midst to kill and kill again. Gitmo is closing, profiling is out, torture should is beneath us and getting to the root of the antagonists in the Middle East has proven difficult.

On holiday visiting @amyeb25′s parents my near-laws mentioned that we were fighting the terrorists over there so we would not have to fight them later on U.S. soil. I imagined marauding gangs of Al-Qaeda types running through Chicago… nonsense. I thought they were out of their minds. Notice I said I thought.

Enter Tahawwur Hussain Rana, owner of First World Immigration, an immigrant assistance agency in the West Rodgers Park neighborhood of Chicago. Rana has been charged with providing material support to a terrorism conspiracy in connection with a planned attack on a Danish newspaper and conspiring to bring foreigners to the U.S. under false pretenses.  Rana is also said to have known in advance about last year’s terror attack in Mumbai that killed 170. Is it true? That is for the courts to decide. Just the idea that a terrorist outpost existed right here in the Windy City is enough for me to begin questioning the methods of our "War on Terror".

Should we start kicking in doors and clubbing heads? Hey why not, it’s the Chicago way No, but it is obvious we need to employ tactics that give us a competitive advantage to combat their methods. They know the ins and outs of our society and have become good at using our own legal limitations against us. In that respect I say the terrorists are winning and something needs to be done before there are marauding gangs of Al-Qaeda types running through the city.