When it comes to terrorism, sometimes “the best counter-terrorism measure is not to overreact.” The warning came from political scientist John Mueller at a presentation in Washington, D.C., Monday, a few days after Paris was roiled by terror attacks.

Mueller called many real and would-be American domestic terrorists bozos and likened them to the Three Stooges. He said that the post-9/11 crop was “not a very impressive list of diabolical cleverness” whose damage, even if they were not preempted by the FBI, was likely to be “on an extremely small scale.”

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