These guys have not ever done anything of the sort as far as I can tell.

Do you think the clerk violated the privacy of these wannabe killers??

  The 4th Amendment, though only protects our "reasonable expectation" of privacy from the eyes and ears of government agents. The clerk is not a government agenat and in any event it's probably not "reasonable" to expect that a video of which you relinquish control and deliver to a 3rd party is absolutely private. The government agents lawfully obtained the video from the clerk and not by engaing in an unreasonable search and seizure of an area in which the men ahad a reasonable expectation of privacy, so unless there is some other problem it will be admissible in court.

Since the Sunni and the Shiite both wish to eject the US from Iraq, are they on the same side?

On the issue of what they "wish," the answer is yes.

Try and think your question through before you ask.

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How about "usedul idoit?"

During the 50's it was used to describe people who supported the Communist Party. Some did so, others did not. Again it is not the term, but the accuracy that matters.

Another term, was "useful idoit." As shown in the link this came from either Lennin or Stalin to describe someone who would do the bidding of the communist party, but didn't belong to it.

jarober's comment is noting that the radical Moslems arrested in Ft Dix do not have to be members of al-Qaida to do what they plotted to do.

the next President will be a Democrat and he or she will have to deal with the reality that terrorists exist and do in fact seek to engage in destructive and harmful acts.

It will be a welcome change to get someone who actually does deal with that particular reality, instead of co-opting the meme as a political tool.  

We could end the war in Iraq tomorrow and terrorists will remain.

We cannot end "the war" in Iraq.  It is self-sustaining, a civil war if you will, where terrorist tactics are used against each other.  For the US to pull out will simply stop our reckless spending of resources, men and equipment, in a war that has no ideological relationship to ourselves.  Those directing their efforts to ejecting the US from Iraq will either redirect or melt back into the populace and try to survive the civil war uncorked by the US moronic pResident.

We could allow Israel to be destroyed and another diaspora, and terrorists will remain.

Yes, like Pandoras box, once you open the lid on terrorist recruitment, you cannot close the box for at least one generation, likely more.  The loathing that creates a person who resorts to terrorist tactics does not go away when the trigger goes away.

The crude terrorist tactics we see are simply a subset of global terrorism practiced by the US, imposed by the lack of resources to mount a more nuanced form of terror, "Shock and Awe", with pretty colors, flowers and calls for nationalistic pride.

We have no choice but to engage terrorists because they choose to engage us and no matter what we do as anation a certain number of people will remain our enemies and be willing to employ violence to express that enmity.

Total bull-hocky.  They engage the US because they believe the US is engaging them.  It started with the ill-conceived Crusades.  The US moron president simply extended that meme from the past to the present, not once, but many times.

Freezing someones bank accounts simply because they don't do what you want them to do is a form of terror practiced by the US.  The US does it all the time, freezing the Talibani assets when they refused a pipeline through their country or attacking Saddam when he tried to get out from under the US thumb by going from a dollar bourse to a euro.

Regime change in Israel would not "destroy" Israel but would allow a saner Israeli government be installed.  Sometimes a caged mad dog has to be put down.

Lastly you talk about "very real threat" without ever acknowledging that the US, by their actions of the last six years, have done nothing but increase the "very real threat".   The US has gone into a neighborhood they know little about and knocked off a capo, in the process unleashing a gang war and turning a large part of the neighborhood against the US.  Staying in the neighborhood simply inflames the problem.