WAIT!  I THOUGHT THAT OBAMA SPOKE AND TERRORISM ENDED – AT 11:32 A.M. ET:  Not so fast.  It's more complicated than that.  From The Hill: 

The number of terrorist attacks and people killed from terrorism has risen dramatically in the last year, according to new State Department research.

Between 2013 and 2014, the number of attacks rose by 35 percent to 13,463, the department claimed in a report on the state of global terrorism released on Friday. The number of deaths from terrorism increased by 81 percent to a total of 32,727.

That is a remarkably high figure.  I'm sure it's much higher than most people have imagined. 

The State Department claimed that the startling increase was largely due to activity in Iraq, Afghanistan and Nigeria. While terrorist attacks took place in 95 countries last year, the majority of them happened in just those three countries as well as Pakistan and India.

Additionally, more than 9,400 people were kidnapped or taken hostage as part of a terrorist attack last year, a three-fold increase from 2013.

Twenty-four Americans were killed as result of terrorism overseas in 2013, and three were kidnapped.

The report points to the growing deadly role of groups like Nigeria’s Boko Haram and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which have the ability to launch lethal attacks that kill scores of people at once.

There were 20 attacks that killed more than 100 people last year, according to data compiled by the State Department, compared to just two in 2013. Five of those attacks were carried out by ISIS in Iraq, and nine were by Boko Haram.

“Despite the fragmentation of al-Qa’ida and its affiliates, weak or failed governance continued to provide an enabling environment for the emergence of extremist radicalism and violence,” the State Department said in its report.

COMMENT:  Our great concern, of course, is that the increase in attacks will present itself in the United States.  We are the Great Satan, and the great target.

June 19, 2015