| The new phenomenon now for the US to look out for is the American Taliban and Alqaeda who have the potential to cause more damage than the foreign-born terrorists. It appears that they come from the fringes away from the mainstream of the American Society. There is no particular racial or ethnic profile. Alienation, indoctrination, misguided ideology, little-David-against-US-Goliath mindset, sense of perversion, fascination with morbid ideology of the terrorists etc are some of the common factors. If they can't excel in noble endeavors, terrorism is a cheap way of attaining false glory and notoriety. They are programmed in their genetic and personality make up to seek perverted glory and unnatural death, just like a moth has an urge to dive into the flame, a deer is transfixed by the headlights, a honeybee drowns in the sweet sap in the flower, a fish wants bite the bait, a wild teenager engages in drag racing and a wild elephant in musth rushes to a trained she-elephant and falls into a pit. |
