Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Terrorism in America

The beheadings performed by ISIS are considered particularly gruesome. Yet. similar crimes by Americans against Americans seldom hit the front page. Micah Zenko believes that "We treat "terrorism" in the common vernacular differently because it is ascribed to foreigners who are unlike us, whereas similarly savage behavior conducted by fellow Americans is a reflection of us."

He talks about three particularly heinous crimes that occurred recently in this country: a beheading in Oklahoma, a grandfather in Florida killing his daughter and all six of her children (ages 11, 9, 8, 5, 4, and 3 months), and a technician in Illinois who selectively severed data and communications cables, destroyed computer equipment, and wrapped gasoline-soaked towels around additional cables and set them on fire resulting in an estimated loss in economic activity of $123 million.

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