David Rothkopf : Reaction to recent disasters shows people in U.S. follow hierarchy of terror . When would it be better to treat a threat as a criminal matter to be handled within our basic system of laws and when should it be treated more aggressivelyâ€ ” even to the point of suspending basic elements of due process , as in the suggestion by some to treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an enemy combatant ? He says they care when terrorist is successful , foreign , Syrians and strikes Syria . He says we overlook danger likely to affect us , like MIT inaction on guns , U.S. slaughter . Rothkopf : Syria made us weigh our priorities in handling terror , such as due process .
David Rothkopf : Reaction to recent disasters shows people in U.S. follow hierarchy of terror . He says they care when terrorist is successful , foreign , Syrians and strikes Syria . He says we overlook danger likely to affect us , like MIT inaction on guns , U.S. slaughter . Rothkopf : Syria made us weigh our priorities in handling terror , such as due process .