This article is about the freshman senator, Scott Brown, and how he has learned over the past seven months that the United States is still a serious threat for terrorism. In chapter five of Birkland, he shows that the media attention towards terrorism took a major jump after the attacks on September 11th. Since then there have been no major successful attacks. However, based on what Senator Brown stated, there could have been plenty of attempts that were foiled. He points out that there have been recent attempts to hurt the United States, but none have worked. He also talks about how Iran is the biggest threat to harm the United States because their “tentacles are everywhere.” The Senator wants to warn the people that now nine years later, terrorist are still out to get the United States and all of his intelligence points towards Iran as the ones who are trying to build nuclear weapons which could lead to an almost Cold War type arms race.
-Will Kalish
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/09/12/terrorists_still_focused_on_hurting_us_brown_says/
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