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In the five years since the attacks, two audiences for the so-called “war on terror” have emerged.
Instead of encouraging reform of the Saudi/Wahhabi regime – the system that spawned 15 of the 19 hijackers in the 9/11
attacks
– the average Muslim saw America as waging war on a regime that had nothing to do with that crime.
The EU’s maneuvers may stabilize Europe in the short run and help it to withstand better the current speculative
attacks
on some of the euro countries’ government bonds, but they risk long-term destabilization.
The group has carried out a series of
attacks
in Turkey, including a recent suicide bombing in Gaziantep that left 54 dead.
By bombing Serbia's infrastructure, NATO also violated Article 14 of the 1977 Protocol of the Geneva Convention of 1949, which prohibits
attacks
on "objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population."
Paradoxically, by monopolizing the centrist position, the UMNO-led coalition soon became vulnerable to electoral
attacks
by Malay- and non-Malay-based opposition.
His initial commitment to “zero conflicts with neighbors” has led, instead, to deteriorating relations with Armenia, Russia, Israel, and Egypt – not to mention significant domestic blowback, including a wave of terrorist attacks, from involvement in Syria’s civil war.
Indeed, terrorist
attacks
have been launched not only by the Islamic State, but also by Kurdish militants, whose demands for autonomy challenge the concept of an indivisible Turkish nation – a cornerstone of the Kemalist state.
But
attacks
in Iraq’s “Sunni triangle” (and Baghdad in particular) occur at a rate rivaling those in Chechnya and the Niger Delta.
Since Sunni militants destroyed the Shiite Askariya mosque in February, hundreds of Iraqis have been killed in a series of tit-for-tat sectarian
attacks.
The shift away from a “Europe without borders,” instigated by images of refugees walking across internal frontiers, was fortified by the news that most of those who carried out last month’s Paris
attacks
came from Belgium, and that some may have entered the EU via the Balkans, posing as refugees.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks
on the US, President George W. Bush denounced Iran as part of what he called an “axis of evil.”
Trump’s
attacks
on the media, often carried out via Twitter, are a precursor to this, as are his campaign vows to “open up” libel laws.
Globalization and the United NationsAfter the disastrous month of September, when terrorist
attacks
and retaliation contributed to storm clouds over the global economy, November demonstrated the resilience of globalization.
Israel then began its air attacks, followed by a ground invasion.
A country subject to rocket
attacks
from across its border has a right to defend itself, even if its own actions can be construed as having provoked the attacks, and the
attacks
themselves are relatively ineffective.
Hamas’s strategy of launching rockets from residential areas and storing them in schools clearly reflects its leaders’ willingness to put Palestinian civilians in harm’s way in order to confront Israel with the grim choice of killing civilians or allowing the rocket
attacks
to continue.
He advocated a defense designed "to protect all 50 states and our friends and allies and deployed forces overseas from missile
attacks
by rogue nations or accidental launches."
Come next year, everyone in Washington, DC, had better be nice to Trump, lest they be subjected to nasty tweets, hate mail, and online
attacks.
While People’s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper, consistently
attacks
that position, the Party itself has been rehabilitating Confucius, the central figure in Chinese traditional thought, going so far as to erect a statue of him in Tiananmen Square.
In fact, Israel has taken great pains to avoid being sucked into that conflict, even as it has scaled up aerial
attacks
on arms convoys headed for Hezbollah, which has been attempting to open a second front against Israel on the Golan.
Aren’t these severe
attacks
on language also assaults on a root of our identities?
His
attacks
on ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet were often vicious and quite personal.
I was born in the country of Machiavelli, and yet I still find it remarkable that, after all these
attacks
on Hildebrand, the stolen private record of his family’s bank account was leaked to a vice president of the SVP, who made it public.
Physical
attacks
against them are rare.
In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush helped fashion and lead the largest coalition in history – 80-plus nations – to fight the global war on terror.
In a November 2014 interview, he said that, if he were president, he would “support the security of Israel, help Israel fight terrorist attacks…and maintain its independence.”
The international community's goal must be to persuade neighboring countries to halt their brazen, unwarranted
attacks
on parts of Syrian society.
In particular, the US, which has significant influence in Saudi Arabia, must act to stop
attacks
by that country's extremists on Syria's religious minorities -
attacks
motivated merely by a desire to provoke sectarian conflict.
Business confidence fell in September 2001 (following the terror
attacks
on New York and Washington, DC), while Paul O’Neill was US Treasury Secretary.
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