It's stories like this that make me wish we had the term "national security" as narrowly defined as the term "treason".<p>I wouldn't be surprised if many of America's largest corporations most often present their corporate interests as national security interests when they are lobbying our politicians.<p>Looking at that map, we need to be asking questions about where so many of those "implants" are located. I'm not surprised by all the little yellow dots covering China and Russia, But what are they doing littered all over Latin America (except Venezuela and Cuba). I would like to here the justification for considering Brazil a national security threat. Same for the red dots in places like Spain, Portugal and France.<p>The only national security threat in Brazil AFAIK is the Comando Vermelho[0], which operates out of Rio de Janeiro. And even then, only a few of the criminal organization leaders in Brazil tenuously relevant to US national security interests, such as Fernandinho Beira Mar[1].<p>The only way to justify the extent of such offensive implants is if we are using a definition of "national security" that is overly broad.<p>The only conclusion I can come to is that we've effectively waging a war against the rest of the World without an act of Congress declaring such a war.<p>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comando_Vermelho" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comando_Vermelho</a><p>[1] IIRC, FBM is responsible for supplying a lot of the advanced Russian-made arms to the FARC. Even then the FARC is only a national security interest of the US because of our completely failed war on drugs.