FUTURE OF TERRORISM

Future of Terrorism in the United States

Future of Terrorism in the United States

Introduction

The United States is, and has long been, the primary target of a variety of foreign terrorist organizations. The country itself (as has also long been the case) has remained relatively insulated from these escalations of terrorist violence. Although the USA is a country that is most often targeted by terrorists abroad, it is near the bottom of the list in terms of the number of terrorist attacks within its own borders.

Despite the fact, that the USA has the highest crime and homicide rates in the industrialized Western world (as well as the greatest number of both legal and illegal weapons in the possession of its citizens), politically motivated crimes are relatively infrequent. The country is not a politically polarized country. Unlike France, Italy or Germany, where a variety of political parties represent the extremes of the ideological spectrum in national politics, the USA has traditionally been a two-party country. The two parties differ little in actual substance from one another.

Discussion

Terrorism is also inhibited because of the country's unparalleled upward economic and social mobility which provides opportunities for social and economic advancement. In addition, the USA is a politically absorbent society. American politics have been ethnic politics, and immigrants have been readily absorbed by the major political parties and integrated into the American political system. While other Western nations have violent irredentist groups, there are none in the USA except for a Puerto Rican faction (Pious, 2006).

There are three types of the terrorist organization exist in the United States: ethnic separatist, and emerge groups; left-wing extremist's organizations; and right-wing racist, anti-authority, and extreme survivalist-type groups. Two- thirds of all terrorism in the USA is carried out by ethnic separatist or émigré terrorists. Their causes ...