Setting up terrorists?

[oskar]

the actual threat (in this case) is this guy would have blown up a bunch of civilians, had he been in contact with the right person instead of an undercover FBI agent.

forever taking this person out of society seems like a fine use of resources to me.

No, that's the potential threat. /smartass

I just tried to look up how many people died on US soil due to terrorist attacks in the last decade, but I can't find any useful numbers. If anyone who's better at google could help me out here...
But I can assure you it is vastly overshadowed by almost any other cause of death that is out there. There have to be better ways to spend u guyses tax dollars. Terra form mars, build a space elevator, invest in armageddon-meteor prevention systems, or if you insist figure out something so we don't loose tens of thousands of children every day to curable and preventable diseases on this planet. I don't care, but I'm sure there are better ways to spend u guyses tax dollars.

[Ash256]

No, that's the potential threat. /smartass

I just tried to look up how many people died on US soil due to terrorist attacks in the last decade, but I can't find any useful numbers. If anyone who's better at google could help me out here...
But I can assure you it is vastly overshadowed by almost any other cause of death that is out there.

I don't understand why you're saying these things and they're making me sad.

A man contacted a Pakistani terror group stating his desire to become a jihadist. If it wasn't for the fact that he was retarded he'd have got through to them.

You think we shouldn't bother monitoring these guys?

If you want the number of people killed on US soil due to terrorist attacks, the 3,000 killed on 9/11 is a decent place to start.

In terms of the homegrown threat, it's really really naive to think homegrown terrorism isn't a threat - just look at 7/7 and the Madrid train bombings.

If you think the amount of money dedicated to anti-terrorism is inefficient due to the numbers killed, do you also think the amount of money dedicated to murder investigations is inefficient, considering cancer kills ~40x more than murders in the US?