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David Weigel | June 19, 2006

Jesse Walker surveys the motley crew of self-proclaimed terrorists "threatening" the U.S.A inside its borders, and looks into the implications of their weakness.

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Joshua|6.19.06 @ 1:30PM|#

I recently mused on a similar subject from the opposite direction. That is, that attacks by "lone wolves" are much easier to dismiss as isolated incidents than attacks by organized groups.

|6.19.06 @ 1:38PM|#

Remember what happened to Kerry when he talked about "terrorism as a nuisance".

Why do you hate America Jesse?

|6.19.06 @ 1:46PM|#

Truly leaderless resistance has almost no probability of securing big bombs and nasty gasses. If the implication is that nationless terrorist organizations should be considered primarily under this category, I disagree.

A nation is one unit of organization and leadership, and it is the one we have evolved deterrents to deal with. There is a real problem with organized terrorists who aren't necessarily organized under a national flag.

|6.19.06 @ 2:58PM|#

There is a real problem with organized terrorists who aren't necessarily organized under a national flag.

It's a problem with precedent in our national history, though.

|6.19.06 @ 4:12PM|#

Ooh, creepy synergy... That's the theater I saw Team America in! No chance of me getting killed by a fellow theater-goer, tho: I was the only person in the show, probably in the whole theater complex.

|6.19.06 @ 5:27PM|#

"creepy synergy"

I think you mean "synchronicity" rather than "synergy"...