A New ‘War on Terror’ Would Be Just as Disastrous as the Original – By Zach Weissmueller (Reason) / Mar 17 2021
“We don’t need to use a faulty model and apply it to the very real terrorism problem that we have at home,” says terrorism expert Max Abrahms.
More than two months after rioters stormed the Capitol, Washington, D.C. is still occupied by National Guard troops, and the police say they want to make the fencing that surrounds the Capitol building permanent.
Political scientist Max Abrahms studies global terrorism. He says that the U.S. government’s response to January 6 is disproportionate to the actual threat and has turned the Capitol into something resembling a green zone in a war-torn country.
“I think that this was one of those situations where the government swung like a pendulum from doing too little to doing too much,” Abrahms tells Reason.
“They were clearly overwhelmed and unprepared for this onslaught,” says Abrahms. “So the government responded by putting in place something like 25,000 national guards in caging up the Capitol. That would be appropriate not to deter the next
Timothy McVeigh but to deter something like ISIS storming Baghdad.”
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