Just had it pointed out to me "luser" was just internet slang, and not really an insult. Sorry I got a little defensive after that.  

For me, "national security" is anything a nation needs to prosper and survive, including national medical care, education, ensuring a healthy job market and that there's infrastructure for everyone to get food, water, information, and from place to place. A lot of my emphasis is on the intelligence aspects of national security, because I started off and got hooked on the subject while reading military history and ex-spook/spy memoirs. I'm fascinated by the economic side of things and think it's under represented, and we need more/better education (at least in the U.S.) that's gauged to a realistic job market and caters to the individual's actual capabilities. I generally don't talk about that part because I only understand it in the broadest terms, and the best I can do is try to listen to the experts in that field and people who are smarter than me. And then there's separating policy from politics...

I hope that helps clarify some. Sorry again for assuming that your question was insincere/attacking. 

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On Oct 10, 2015, at 10:23, Michael Best <themikebest@gmail.com> wrote:

Yep. Thought tacit acknowledgment in first answer was clear, but like it was lost in translation as too often happens with email. My fault. Ad hominem anticipation was in response to the bombing comment.

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 10:14:57AM -0400, Michael Best wrote:
> Here's the windup... and the pitch...
> It looks like it's gonna be an ad hominem!
> Best doesn't swing at it. Ball one.
>

In case you can't understand the question, are you this?:
https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek
According to:
http://www.dailydot.com/politics/cryptome-ip-leak-john-young-michael-best/