Why America Should Focus on Domestic, Not Foreign, Problems
America’s strategic distraction has favored addressing foreign threats and those domestically with a foreign aspect, leaving a wide space for domestic extremism to go unchecked.
IN 1838, Abraham Lincoln observed that any truly existential danger to the United States of America would not come from military threats abroad. Pointing to America’s enviable geographic position, he asked, “Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow?” He answered himself with a resounding “Never!” Lincoln’s certainty was rooted in the enormous potential of antebellum America: “the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined,” with all the world’s riches and “a Bonaparte for a commander,” could not in one thousand years “take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge.” The real danger came not from abroad but from within. The greatest threats were those, he sa
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‘Whoever did this was an animal’: The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
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His wife, LaRue, and his granddaughter, 4-year-old Ashley Eckles, were with him.
Julie Welch, 23, worked at the Social Security office. She worked with Spanish-speaking clients.
It was a normal day for all of them that ended in horror.
On Wednesday, April 19, 1995, at 9:03 a.m. a bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
The “bombing in the heartland” killed 168 people, including 19 children younger than 6 years old. More than 500 people were injured.
Oklahoma City fire Capt. Chris Fields carries 1-year-old Baylee Almon, in this file photo shot Wednesday, April, 19, 1995 at the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. The child died of her injuries. (AP Photo/Charles H. Porter IV, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS
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