Every four years the administration releases a new “National Security Strategy.” That’s where President Bush, for instance, rolled out ‘preemption’ as the cornerstone of his approach in 2002. After a little delay, the Obama administration just released its own. And there’s something in there that hasn’t gotten a lot of notice: a new focus on homegrown terrorism as an emerging threat in US counter-terrorism policy.
This puts together the Nidal Hasan shooting at Fort Hood, the recent case of Faisal Shahzad, the short-circuited plot of Najubullah Zazi and others. There’s been a lot of talk about this on the right as an emerging trend. But now the Obama administration is taking note of it too. Justin Elliott has the story.
