ABSTRACT
History repeats itself, day after day after day: the US Marines in Lebanon; the Israelis in Tyre; Palestinians against Palestinians: North Koreans against the South in Rangoon; Jordanian diplomats all over the world; Turkish diplomats, the American naval attack in Athens. Terrorism, as evil old Hassan Sabah showed, is nothing new. Indeed, it existed even before him, although he provided people with part of its lexicon. But there are some startling new facts and trends in terrorism says that even our top policymakers have not absorbed. Brian Jenkins and others who assiduously study the problem point out that actual incidents in the US have gone down. The United States is different. Most of its terrorism is “ethnic,” or, in effect, imported from outside ethnic squabbles. If one is capable of taking a cold and detached position, one can point out that 60 million people died in world wars in the first half of this century.
