Although there are multiple reasons to have expected an erosion of concern about terrorism since , poll data suggest that the fear of terrorism has shown little sign of waning in the United States. Special fear and anxiety have been stoked and maintained by the fact that Islamist terrorism seems to be part of a large and hostile conspiracy that is international in scope, and rather spooky in nature. Fear of such terrorism is more like that inspired by domestic communists during the Cold War than like that generated by domestic terrorism. Policymakers can do little, if anything, to reduce the fear of terrorism-if people want to be afraid, nothing will stop them. However, this means that policymakers are, in an important sense, free to do their job right: they can expend money responsibly in a manner that best saves lives rather than in one that seeks to reduce unjustified, and perhaps unfathomable, fears. Continue to full version.
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The United States has now been at war in Afghanistan for some seventeen years and been fighting another major war in Iraq for fifteen years. It has been active in Somalia far longer and has spread its operations to deal with terrorist or extremist threats in a wide range of conflicts in North and Sub-Saharan in Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia. In case after case, the U. The line between counterterrorism and counterinsurgency has become so blurred that there is no significant difference.
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Several scholars have accused the United States of conducting state terrorism. They have written about the liberal democracies ' use of state terrorism, particularly in relation to the Cold War. According to them, state terrorism is used to protect the interest of capitalist elites, and the U. This work has proved controversial with mainstream scholars of both state and non-state terrorism , which is often omitted from their work, along with any mention that Western liberal democracies, as former imperial powers, frequently used terrorism in the invasions and occupations of their colonies.