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>it has no "troops" with which to engage foreigners.

It has no troops, but it has the CIA, who can assemble a makeshift covert "troop" in no time.

>You might not be part of those groups, but how do we know if we don't look at you?

Exactly the reasoning soon to be used to allow domestic mass surveillance. Mark my words.



That is hardly the most significant thing I wrote in my comment.

edit: US citizens already get looked at by other government orgs. What you're talking about already happens.




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