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Content: Why do terrorists do terrorism? Terrorism is commonly considered a coercive political strategy
employed to manipulate abroader audience, enraptured by the horror
of the terrorist's dramatic acts of violence. What is needed in order to answer the question of why the U.S.
is targeted is a close examination of particular campaigns of
terrorism, in the context of a comparison of terrorism against the
United States with terrorism against other targets. Not all groups
use international terrorism, and of those that do, not all target
the United States. Some nonstate actors use terrorism exclusively in a domestic
context; they do not ordinarily attack foreign targets or act
outside national bundaries. Others operate internationally or
transnationally but do not attack American targets. Some groups
begin at the domestic level and move to the international level,
while others act internationally from the outset. Some groups ttack American targets but then abandon the
strategy. To date there has been no systematic analysis of why
terrorism would take different paths.