Terrorism: Major Threat, Manageable Problem, or Both?

The Cato Institute’s Malou Innocent sparked an interesting conversation last week on the nature of the terrorist threat America faces.  Writing at the The Skeptics, in a post appropriately titled “They Hate Us Because We Don’t Know Why They Hate Us,” Innocent says of the trend of Western-born Muslims who have become radicalized in recent years,

The narrative that most of these men subscribed to in the wake of 9/11 was that America sought to weaken and control the Islamic world. To them, the West was not only fighting two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also threatening to . . .
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