Terror’s War on Civilization Grows

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8/4/14

 

As U.S. regulators told airlines to fly higher over Iraq due to the horde of U.S. weapons that ISIS recently captured, Boko Haram set its sights on expanding the terror war into another country: Cameroon. The Financial Times:

 

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Meanwhile, as far as we can tell, the White House is still in denial—still operating as if the “global war on terror” was a product of deranged, Islamophobic Bush Administration aides and neocons, and as if the spread of a nihilistic fanatic cult weren’t a big global problem that needed to be addressed with an integrated strategy, including a military counter-terror component.

 

It’s as if during the Cold War we had argued that communism was a matter for Interpol rather than NATO. Police work and crime-fighting are instruments to be used in the war on violent fanaticism, and many of these movements have their roots in local grievances and conflicts. But the whole, unfortunately, is greater than the sum of its parts, and the whole amounts to a global conflict that at the moment civilization cannot claim to be winning.

 

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