little brother terrorists

Marcus thinks to himself: “I’d never really believed in terrorists before—I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn’t really represent any risk to me” (p. 41). He later muses: “I didn’t know what a terrorist looked like, though TV shows had done their best to convince me that they were brown Arabs with big beards and knit-caps and loose cotton dresses that hung down to their ankles.” These statements leads to the questions: a) What makes us safe? Who has power? What is safety?