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As long as Al Qaeda continues to plan terrorist attacks, the US cannot reasonably be required to forego opportunities to kill its leaders and others carrying out these attacks.
But Obama did promise greater transparency, which is essential to any sound debate over the rights and wrongs of drone attacks, and to democratic control over how the US is waging its war against terrorism.
When a Chinese government security official recently accused followers of the Dalai Lama of organizing suicide attacks – merely the most extreme of a barrage of allegations against the “Dalai clique” – it was as though the Cultural Revolution were still raging.
But, beyond fueling anger, Trump’s attacks on other countries’ sovereignty are adding momentum to a new push for European political unification.
What they do not include is an effort to address the largest obstacle to lasting peace: the ongoing attacks against civilians and other atrocities that are intensifying divisions among the Syrian factions who will eventually have to govern together.
Meanwhile, the attacks in Europe by ISIS, combined with the mass exodus of Syrian refugees, has spurred a new push for a political compromise.
The Assad regime is responsible for the highest number of civilian casualties by far, having carried out indiscriminate attacks in populated opposition-held areas, besieged entire populations, blocked the delivery of humanitarian aid, and tortured and executed prisoners.
Many of our countries are targets of terrorism, which, eight years on from the attacks of September 11, 2001, we must recognize is down, but by no means out.
Despite its leaders’ grim public image, Iran has a sense of humanism, as any Kurd who fled from Saddam Hussein’s chemical-warfare attacks along the Iranian border can attest.
Back then, Bush was widely praised for his response to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
After all, the US has already accepted the Taliban’s unrealistic assurances that it will not use Afghanistan as a base from which to “foment trouble” – that is, execute terrorist attacks – elsewhere.
A decade of running and hiding from unrelenting surveillance and targeted drone attacks has caused the movement to splinter.
As for the Playboy , it has been met with the expected criticism – but no attacks and indeed, not even any demonstrations.
In the last 12 months, the country has suffered attacks by child suicide bombers and brutal massacres by Boko Haram.
Al-Qaeda lost the sanctuaries from which it planned its attacks; many of its leaders were killed or captured; and its central communications were severely disrupted.
The US invasion of Iraq, a country that was not connected to the 9/11 attacks, squandered that good will, and the attractiveness of the US in Muslim countries like Indonesia plummeted from 75% approval in 2000 to half that level today.
For some countries, like the United States, this reevaluation is grounded in national security concerns (largely undefined) that arose in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
And ISIS has proven adept at doing just that, drawing fighters from all over the world who are willing to die for its cause – to create an expansive caliphate – and inspiring many more to carry out attacks in their home countries.
Their sponsors must change their tactics, building their ranks and plotting attacks underground.
Similarly, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, US stocks dropped nearly 12%, but bounced back in a month.
Moreover, America’s stimulus program obviously worked (notwithstanding criticism from the left for being too small, and attacks from the right for being too large).
But not everyone responds to terrorist attacks with the atavism of Trump or Britain First.
Take France, where on November 13, 2015, Islamic State (ISIS) militants carried out terror attacks on the Bataclan concert hall and other sites in Paris.
Since the attacks, their relationship with their surroundings has been upset.
After the Paris attacks, the French quickly showed that they would not give up their way of life, nor would they give in to the temptation of civil war.
Another consequence of the attacks is that international cooperation among security services has strengthened, new technologies have been adopted, and video surveillance has been implemented more widely.
And, over time, armed soldiers – some of whom have been targets of new attacks – have become a familiar presence on French streets.
In recent years, some of those drawn to Islamist-inspired extremism have carried out attacks with rudimentary instruments, from cars and delivery trucks to kitchen knives.
In the two years since the ISIS attacks in Paris, France has readied itself to face the terrorist threat.
But the political consensus about how to tackle terrorism, which prevailed after the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the Hypercacher kosher supermarket, has eroded.
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