When all else fails, make like the South Park moms, and blame Canada.
The 51st State, with its liberal immigration policies, is letting in all kinds of scary people from "Pakistan, Afghanistan and Egypt," according to a briefing from U.S. Northern Command. And that "large population" of so-called "special-interest aliens" presents the "greatest potential for foreign terrorists’ access to the homeland."
The eastern Great Lakes region — the part of Canada above New York and New England — is particularly creepy country, the presentation says. That’s where the "largest presence" of "support networks and extremist organizations" exist — the ones that create "foreign terrorist opportunities," or FTOs.
Give InsideDefense.com credit for catching the presentation, before an embarrassed Northcom could yank the thing from its website.
"It’s a thin line in counterterrorism planning between vigilance and lunacy," Spencer Ackerman notes. "And you know what also contributes to terrorism? Xenophobia directed at Muslim immigrants. Just saying."
