The article Blowback by Mark Hosenball and Evan Thomas in Newsweek talked about the increase in Homegrown terror. "Since the beginning of 2009 25 American Citizens have been arrested on charges related to Islamist extremism. The authors of the article fear that there will be a demand for severe laws, and that Obama will be accused of going "soft" on terrorism. It also stinks for the Muslim Americans who will be and are probably already stereotyped as terrorists, when in reality most have no intrest in extremism. Obama's administration along with the CIA have however, participated in more than double the amount of drone attacks than bush.
This War on Terrorism is very hard, because we the United States, are not simply fighting another country, these groups are usually not in contact with eachother and are spread throughout the Middle East. And now, here in America, there is a rise of self-terrorist (I don't knnow if that is the right term, but basically people who work on their own, and are not connected to Al-Queda).
I chose this article, becuase it seemed very interesting to me, it is well written, and terrorism is something that very real, and that we are dealing with. I know it will be hard, but I hope that we will be able to overcome it.
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