Assuming history goes as it should, as polls say it will, the next War on Terror is right around the corner.
This will be a real war. A war on your street, in your town. Against terrorists who look just like you.
This is certain for two reasons. First, it happened before -- remember the Weathermen? Second, you can't run for a generation on the proposition that the other side is illegitimate, un-American, an enemy, and not expect some blowback. Just look at what happened under the Clintons -- Oklahoma City, the Atlanta bombings.
Now you expect the Republican tribes to tolerate a Barack Obama Administration dedicated to tearing down everything George Bush has built? Neither do I.
Once the Republican Tribes realize they're finished, they're going to ground. They're going to use their technical savvy (they're Americans) and their ready access to arms (they're Americans) to gather their forces and try to take it all back by force, all the while claiming that they're the victims, they're the ones under attack, they're surrounded and they're just defending themselves.
It's how they roll.
So who are these new terrorists? Thanks to groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center we already have some good ideas.
But that understanding is limited because the SPLC only actively tracks groups which have already announced their intentions against the government -- neo-Nazis, Christian brotherhood, white nationalist, even black nationalists. What happens when what are now mainstream groups find themselves marginalized? And what happens when the economic downturn grows ethnic-based organized crime gangs, as it has in the past?
So some imagination is required:




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