Prince, a one-time king of the mercenary world, told Eli Lake of the Daily Beast, "Whether it’s allowing the NSA to go way too far in what it intercepts of our personal data, to our government monitoring of everything domestically and spending way more than we should. I don’t know if I want to live in a country where lone wolf and random terror attacks are impossible ‘cause that country would look more like North Korea than America.”

 

Prince is certainly on to something.

 

The national security apparatus has been concerned for at least the last decade or so that the most feared weapon of the enemy in the so-called War on Terror — the roadside bomb, or Improvised Explosive Device — would make its way back to American soil.