What are they saying about "Homeland Security" these days?

Well...there's this story (http://coloradoindepe...) that makes clear we're going to have more combat ready troops deployed stateside.

Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of U.S. Northern Command, which was created in 2002 for homeland defense missions, said “It’s to help us manage the consequences of a large-scale event. We have one [unit] now trained and equipped and assigned to the Northern Command. We’ll grow a second one this calendar year of 2009 and a third one in the calender year 2010 so we can provide the nation three sets of capabilities that could respond to an event of the size of 9/11 or larger.”

Do we anticipate a "large-scale event"? Should we ask Colin Powell? ( http://www.youtube.co... )Perhaps VP-elect Biden can give us some insight. (http://www.youtube.co...)

What are we to make of all this?