Talking Terrorism

Abstract

"The American public discourse on terrorism has been completely transformed since 9111. Not since the first Gulf War in the early 1990s had the geography of the Middle East and South Asia received such a penetrating look by American media. And not since the fall of the Shah in 1979 had the tenants of Islam been kitchen-table conversations across the United States, and even the world. The transformation of discourse that was taking place on the American main street was also taking place within the intelligence community. "