As mentioned in the previous post, The Christian Science Monitor has linked the upsurge in lone wolf terrorist acts to the more strident racism going on in the United States lately. They discuss that terrorist groups are using more “Lone Wolf” terrorism, and “Leaderless Resistance” activities, and describe how such activities developed within the terrorist and extreme communities.

They didn’t mention at all how the US government has pioneered and promoted these tactics, with the use of “Plausible deniability” going back as far as the Vietnam war, CIA death squads and assasination attempts, and the use of Extraordinary Rendition. Sigh. Not that either situation is acceptable, but pointing a finger only at the immoral acts committed by extremists and ignoring the immoral acts committed by my government makes for an untruthful view of the situation, and hinders honest attempts to understand and fix things.