The president has argued, and I suppose his followers argue, that we're going to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here. Well, our intelligence agencies say that, in the course of fighting them over there, their numbers are increasing and spreading across the world.
Senator Durbin challenges the argument that fighting Jihadists in Iraq prevents them from attacking the U.S., citing intelligence reports indicating their numbers are growing.
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