Obama's just war speech: Three questions for 'the Middle East in the United States'

Congo, Zimbabwe, North Korea, Sin Kiang and Honduras, are hot spots that have turned or are likely to turn violent. But the Middle East is different in two ways. It is the longest continuously war-ridden area in modern history. And at least since September 11, it has become a domestic American issue. US soldiers continue to die in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the US newly established Department of Homeland Security will be long busy tracking "enemy combatants," "infiltrators," and ordinary American citizens ready to take up the cause of radical Islam.