   Laura Nation's article concerning "identifying possible security threats in Talladega County " to meet state and federal requirements illustrates, sadly, that terrorism damage to Talladega County and our nation is being inflicted as we speak, in terms of the manpower and costs expended in the name of even preparing for "Homeland Defense".   We're probably fooling ourselves if we think that our nation can even remotely be defended against terrorism through whatever efforts. In a free society, terrorists' targets are too numerous to begin to be protected. Hopefully, we won't pursue a "Homeland Defense" strategy in each town and county in the entire US to a point that it can and will bankrupt our nation.
   Thankfully, President Bush understands that the only strategy that will protect our nation from terrorism is to attack, infiltrate and destroy terrorist organizations.   In that vein, money and manpower spent on homeland defense would best be used to destroy the threat as opposed to defending against it.
   I feel sure that President Bush's aggressive "attack" strategy has bought to our nation's homefront,     freedom from attack to date, but no guarantee of freedom of attack tomorrow.   As bad as it may sound, it just may be smart to agree to accept possible occasional major homeland disasters in the short term in order to expend all major resources necessary to annihilate the source.