Anyone who has followed me for a while knows I feel strongly about emphasizing that domestic terrorism is as much terrorism as the Islamist kind. I think it would be wise, though, to consider all the ways in which our policies have failed to stop the latter, and...not do that?

Like, if you're a journalist asking the former CIA head of counterterrorism from 2004-2006 for his thoughts on domestic terrorism, maybe ask him how that that whole Iraq thing turned out for global terrorist threats? https://www.npr.org/2021/02/02/963343896/former-cia-officer-treat-domestic-extremism-as-an-insurgency?t=1612716709455

My point is that you can call it terrorism and treat it like terrorism in news coverage and public discourse, but it would also make sense not to use the same tactics used to fight insurgency in *checks notes* the country that produced ISIS after we invaded and occupied it.