As we enter the second year of 9/11’s second decade, anxieties about terrorism in the United States haven’t declined – even though no Islamist terrorist has been able to detonate even the simplest of bombs in the United States, even though there has been no sizable attack in the country, even though Osama bin Laden has been expunged, and even though an American’s chance of being killed by a terrorist is about one in 3.5 million per year. [cont.]
John Mueller, Ohio State U. (Philadelphia Inquirer)