bombing of the boston marathon. so that s the current threat. lethal, yet less capable al qaeda affiliates, threats to diplomatic facilities and businesses abroad, homegrown extremis extremists. this is the future of terrorism. we have to take these threats seriously and do all that we can do confront them, but as we shape our response, we have to recognize that the scale of this threat mostly resembles the types of attacks we faced before 9/11. in the 1980s we lost americans to terrorism at our embassy in beir beirut, at our marine barracks in lebanon, at a cruise ship at sea, at a disco in berlin and at a pan am flight, flight 103, ore lockerbie. in the 1990s we lost americans
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