The New World Disorder
International terrorism is booming, but Americans seldom pay the price.
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By any definition, the massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, this week was an act of terror, no less so than Ku Klux Klan lynchings throughout the South in decades past. Yet without minimizing the acts tragedy, horror, or broader social implications, its worth noting thatcompared with the rest of the worldterrorism in America, or terrorism affecting Americans, is a rare occurrence.
On Friday the State Department released the latest edition of its annual Country Reports on Terrorism.
In 2014, according to its findings, 32,700 people were killed in terrorist attacksof whom just 24 were American citizens.
Those 24 Americans were overseas at the time10 in Afghanistan, five in Israel, four in Syria, three in Somalia, and one each in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. In this sense, the report loads the deck: a congressionally mandated document, it calls on the secretary of state to detail attacks in each foreign country whose territory is being used as a sanctuary for terrorists or terrorist organizations. (Italics added.) In other words, domestic acts of terror are excluded, along with the can of worms that the whole concept would stir up.
Still, go ahead and count every domestic hate crime that fits the State Departments definition of terrorism in generalpremeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets, which certainly includes the killings in Charleston, among many othersand the total would pale before whats going on in those parts of the world where this sort of violence defines daily life.
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