Moral high ground lowers our defenses
So, James Comey, the director of the FBI, has declared that the United States has a potential huge homeland security problem, and, at least in public, he is suggesting that we have no solution on the table. He said, “There may be as many as thousands of people inside the United States ready to support the Islamic State or ISIS.” Also, while the FBI is trying to find the so-called needles in a haystack, “increasingly the needles are invisible to us,” he said.
I would suggest that perhaps the needles are becoming invisible because they are looking for it in the proverbial haystack, instead of mosques and other Muslim-heavy locations.
For years we have ignored the elephant in the room and frisked children and old ladies in our airports, while allowing men who are apparently from the Middle East to walk through security points because we fear accusations of profiling.
The moral high ground often leaves the gates to the city undefended.
Gerald Fontana
Waynesburg