"Terrorphobia" - John Mueller - The American Interest Magazine

Professor Mueller is a Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies and professor of political science at Ohio State University. I first found him on a C-Span Book Notes presentation of his last book "Overblown" a couple years ago. [excerpt] ... "This does not mean that most Americans spend a great deal of time obsessing over terrorism, or even paying all that much attention to it. Terrorism has for years now scored rather poorly on polls asking about the country’s most important problem. Then again, people don’t constantly think about motherhood either, but they would certainly not look kindly upon a politician or bureaucrat who was insufficiently sentimental about that venerable institution. ..." You might be suffering from "terrorphobia" - read on.