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Not surprisingly, after the
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Western leaders reaffirmed the urgency of bringing Turkey into the European fold.
In the days following the
attacks
in Istanbul, Turks across the board condemned this brutal violence: there was no (or only negligible) blame-the-victim sentiment toward Turkish Jews (or toward Israel) or toward the British and Americans, whose war in Iraq is extremely unpopular in Turkey.
But the terrorist
attacks
in Istanbul are unlikely to generate a nervous reaction in restricting democratic rights.
If al-Qaeda was behind the attacks, it grossly miscalculated.
When the Muslim world was thrown into confusion and disarray after the terrorist
attacks
of September 11, 2001, the democratic wing of the Islamist movement was working on a platform of legislative reforms it would propose for EU accession.
When Tony Blair says that the most important liberty is security from terrorist attacks, he has forgotten the first principles of his party and his country.
After all, the current strategy has not really worked either as a deterrent against conventional
attacks
(which persisted throughout the years that Israel supposedly developed its nuclear arsenal) or as a warning to rivals (such as Iran) against developing a nuclear weapon.
There was also, at least in the US, the desire to avenge the terrorist
attacks
on New York and Washington, as well as geopolitical interests.
And while the AfD
attacks
her right flank, rivals within her own party will be jostling to succeed her.
On the contrary, the text legitimizes continuing
attacks
against Israeli civilians in the West Bank, making it unacceptable to Israel – and to the international community.
Despite more than three months of aerial
attacks
on Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s troops, a stalemate of sorts seems to have set in.
The Saudis continued such programs after the terror
attacks
of September 11, 2001, and even after they discovered that “the Call” is uncontrollable, owing to the technologies of globalization.
Like the hijackers of 9/11, who were also Saudi/Wahhabi ideological exports (15 of the 19 men who carried out those terror
attacks
were chosen by Bin Laden because they shared the same Saudi descent and education as he), Saudi Arabia’s reserve army of potential terrorists remains, because the Wahhabi factory of fanatical ideas remains intact.
For the past three and a half decades, the principal shocks have not been inflationary, like the 1973 and 1979 oil crises, but rather deflationary, like the US savings and loan crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, the 1997 Asian crisis, the 2000 dot-com bust, the terrorist
attacks
of September 11, 2001, the 2007 subprime collapse that began in the US, and the 2010 European debt crash.
Angered by the prospect that anyone would consider his election invalid – which no serious person alleged – he ratcheted up his
attacks
on the CIA, the FBI, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (which coordinates the findings of the various intelligence agencies).
In the wake of the US terrorist
attacks
of September 11, 2001, there was an outpouring of goodwill for the US.
Even when non-Muslim white men launch explicitly terrorist
attacks
– for example, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who murdered 168 people in 1995, or the “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski – their offenses are typically regarded as isolated law-enforcement issues, not as terrorism.
After all, the
attacks
on the Madrid train system in 2004, and on London’s public-transport system in 2005, were not carried out by Saudi or Taliban immigrants, but by young men born and raised in Spain and the United Kingdom.
Indeed, no such approach really existed until the September 11, 2001, terror
attacks
on the United States, when the notion that terrorist groups could pose a real threat to the West’s security penetrated official thinking for the first time.
Soon after the September 11 attacks, NATO established a “terrorism threat intelligence unit” to bolster its intelligence pooling and analysis efforts.
Obviously, the terrorist
attacks
of late November complicate this story.
Instead of waiting passively for sanctions, Iran’s leaders decided to start a Middle East crisis by organizing
attacks
against Israel.
Hamas acted by increasing rocket
attacks
on nearby Israeli territory, and by launching a raid into Israel itself, killing two soldiers and capturing another.
But the possibility of attack was of course anticipated, and military planners determined that the only possible response was to counterattack as heavily and for as long as might be needed, until Palestinian
attacks
would stop, whether from exhaustion or agreement.
Modi is a take-no-prisoners campaigner, who revels in punchy invective and freely launches partisan
attacks
at opponents (including me).
Rarely has the United States witnessed such brazen
attacks
on its political system; and rarely has the world seen such lows during peacetime.
If we rebel against humiliation, insult or enslavement as individuals; if we defend our individual human dignity and resist
attacks
that threaten it; we do -- indeed we must do -- precisely the same as a community that has established a state, because the state is, among other things, an instrument to protect our life together in freedom.
Though it has lagged behind the privatization of military services, the privatization of intelligence expanded dramatically with the growth in intelligence activities after the September 11, 2001,
attacks
on the US.
The operation, held annually and comprising 5-10 combat vessels, 1-2 auxiliary ships, and 2-4 maritime-patrol aircraft, includes forces from 26 European navies, and has undoubtedly helped to discourage, if not end, pirate
attacks.
One person even told me that, because of those attacks, Japan had received a golden opportunity to clear its name of the stigma of Pearl Harbor.
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