Who should die first?

How many Americans are surprised at the unfolding depth and breadth of the homegrown terrorist plot linked to a Colorado man alleged to be a stateside al Quaida operative?  Najibulla Zazi is the 24-year-year-old Afghan native, now enjoying legal U.S. residency, charged with planning the construction and detonation of potent hydrogen peroxide bombs in New York City.

Zazi was in contact with several other al Quaida agents in the U.S. as he traveled from his Denver home to New York City around the 9/11 anniversary earlier this month.  This breaking story should be a wake up call to anyone that has fallen into a sense of complacency.  Terrorists aren't quitting.  They feel justified that their cause is warranted and demanded by their god and so their passions for their terrorist activities are deep and fervent.

As laymen, most U.S. citizens are ignorant to the diligent efforts that our security forces employ every day to keep us safe.  Homeland security must remain a top priority and every citizen needs to unite in supporting the government's efforts to keep us safe.

The religious zealots that are plotting to kill us will not stop any time soon.  Therefore we can't stop preparing and working to root out the terrorists plotting against us while they quietly live and work in our American towns and cities.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that in one day this week, four separate terrorist plots were discovered and thwarted.  Two plots involved planned car bombs in Illinois and Dallas, Texas, reminiscent of the 1995 Murrah Building bombing in Oklahoma City, killing 168 innocent Americans, including 19 children.

The Dallas bomb plot involved the 60-story Fountain Place office building, the target of a 19-year-old Jordanian man.  The suspect was given a fake bomb by an undercover FBI agent, the Tribune story reported.

Stay alert!  Stay faithful!  Stay united!  Terrorists live and die to tear our country apart, hoping to watch us crumble.  Muslim radicals think that our destruction is their religious mandate.  They will not stop.  This means that we cannot stop either.

Who should die first?  Us or them?  Do more American children and their parents have to die by more bombings on quiet beautiful mornings before all Americans will finally unite in homeland security efforts?  Those efforts include offensive war abroad such as in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond where terrorists hide, plan and train.  Who should die first?