Are We Really Fighting the War on Terrorism?

While I agree with the sentiment stated herein but there is a small problem with the military being used to "fight" groups like the KKK, etc. The Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C. Section 1385) was enacted to prevent the use of U.S. troops in combating any form of civil unrest and against dissident groups (KKK, etc). In 2006, as part of the Post Katrina law changes there was an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, however due to a huge amount of negative sentiment that particular exception was removed in 2007.

As a result, the only agencies permitted to deal with dissidents and radical organizations such as the KKK, et al., is the FBI, state and local police officials.

SPC Christopher Smith, I personally agree with you about groups like the KKK being a domestic "enemy." I think such domestic elements (including domestic terrorist groups) are seen as a law enforcement problem to be handled by agencies such as the FBI and state and local police.

Whether the U.S. military should get involved in that fight would, I think, be a policy decision. We'd have to get the order to join that fight from higher. Remember that another part of the oath goes like this: "I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice."

So, if we failed to follow those orders, then I think we would not be keeping our promise in the oath.

I'll take a controversial view and disagree with your premise that the KKK is a terrorist group. This is not the KKK of the 60s and 70s that was attacking, burning and hanging fellow Americans. This is a few sad old people who can't fill a meeting room the size of a gas station restroom. They might agitate and have the occasional speech at town hall but they are not attacking Americans nor do they pose a threat to America.

There are plenty of other examples you could use that pose a real and present danger to the US. As someone mentions the Posse Comitatus Act, let me add another fire bomb and state that I believe that act was mistakenly made and if it were revisited by the SCOTUS they might even find it to be unconstitutional. It restricts the use of our forces from meeting requirements placed on us by our constitution!

So let's get rid of PCA and go after The New Black Panthers, MS13 and any number of other groups. Many of them comprised of illegal aliens! Once we get rid of them, we can send two boy scouts to tell the last vestige of the Klan to sit down and shut up.