From the Washington Post….

The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.

All the usual suspects are up in arms about how this the end of American Freedom. I don’t have much sympathy for this line of argument. Many of those same people where complaining after 9/11 that there was not enough troop left in American to defend the homeland.

You want to worry about the end of your freedom, worry about SWAT teams that are increasingly being misused to make all sorts of arrests that should not be made using paramilitary tactics.