Progressive counterterrorism perspectives are like Frito-Lays products to me. Why stop? Here are some interesting ideas emailed to me by some of your favorite bloggers.

The Seminal’s Alex Thurston:

We should seek to decouple the notion of terrorism from Islam in our rhetoric. If some of the most deadly terrorists in the United States were homegrown, and some of the most deadly terrorists in the world are non-Muslims (like Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers), then isolating Islam as the source of terrorism is both inaccurate and counterproductive. I do not support the conceptual framework of the “War on Terror,” but even if we preserve this we must strive not to allow it to seem like a war on Islam.

Marcy Wheeler from Emptywheel, part of the same Firedoglake posse I represent:

Much more inspection of shipping containers (which would also make shipping more expensive and US jobs more secure).

Serious consideration of the security vulnerabilities at domestic chemical and other hazards plants, particularly those in high population areas.

Real cyber-security but with equally serious privacy guarantees.

The author of D-Day (I’m not sure if his identity is public and I’d rather err on the side of caution):

Someone else may be better on the particulars, but in the broad view we need to adopt the perspective of the recent RAND Corporation report on how terrorist groups end, by allowing local intelligence and law enforcement to take the lead in counter-terrorism efforts.