Alan: Philosophically, Timothy McVeigh holds much in common with anti-government "conservatives."
His stated reasons for bombing the Murrah Building were ""what the U.S. government did at Waco and Ruby Ridge"
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"ISIS Panic In A World Where Islamics Mostly Kill One Another"
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Alan: In terms of America's domestic security, I am more concerned with The Tea Party's militia wing than I am with ISIS.
"Some officials and terrorism experts believe that the actual danger posed by ISIS has been distorted in hours of television punditry and alarmist statements by politicians, and that there has been little substantive public debate about the unintended consequences of expanding American military action in the Middle East. Daniel Benjamin, who served as the State Department’s top counterterrorism adviser during Mr. Obama’s first term, said the public discussion about the ISIS threat has been a 'farce,' with 'members of the cabinet and top military officers all over the place describing the threat in lurid terms that are not justified.'” Mark Mazzetti, Eric Schmitt and Mark Landler inThe New York Times.
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