States of Terror
It is nearly certain that we will endure, sooner rather than later,
another catastrophic terrorist attack on American soil. The blundering
of our military into the Middle East; the failed states that have risen
out of the mismanagement and chaos of Iraq and Afghanistan; the millions
of innocents we have driven from their homes, terrorized or
slaughtered; the bankrupt puppet regimes we have equipped and trained
that will not fight; the massive amounts of munitions and military
hardware we have allowed to fall into the hands of jihadis—thousands of
them carrying Western passports; and the myopic foreign policy whose
single tenet is that more industrial violence will get us out of the
morass created by our industrial violence in the first place means that
we, like France, are in for it.
A memorial in New York City to victims of the Paris attacks. If
the United States suffers terrorist killings similar to those in France,
a state of national anxiety well might cripple American democracy. (Kathy Willens / AP)
the United States suffers terrorist killings similar to those in France,
a state of national anxiety well might cripple American democracy. (Kathy Willens / AP)
