California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 6, 2015 @01:28AM from the no-solution-is-permanent dept.

JoeyRox writes: The recent terror attack in California reflects "an evolution of the terrorist threat that Mr. Obama and federal officials have long dreaded: homegrown, self-radicalized individuals operating undetected before striking one of many soft targets that can never be fully protected in a country as sprawling as the United States." With this new type of terror risk, authorities may begin relying more heavily on citizens reporting suspicious behavior of others. The attack is also expected to renew the debate over privacy versus security for software encryption. President Obama will be addressing the nation tonight to discuss the attack.

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Re:So we're not going to over-react this time, rig by benjfowler · 2015-12-06 02:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Blaming "foreign policy" is victim blaming
Islamists, if deprived of that excuse, would rapidly find another. "Foreign policy" is just a bullshit post-hoc justificiation -- and convenient, because they can force us to change our foreign policy to tip-toe around Muslims, so we have to tip-toe around them, and give them more free shit and lebensraum.
No quarter to fascists. We should be hanging the pigs, not making excuses for them.