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...tone-deaf" on national security. The problem is, nobody has yet figured out the good answer for the bad question "Are human rights more important than American national security?" The right answer is that without human rights, America cannot have national security. It is not "our freedom" that Osama bin Laden hates. It is the fact that we preserve our rights here in America but deny the same freedoms to others. Every time we infringe on human rights in an effort to bolster security, we lose both. Denying human rights has always been the greater risk to security...
...with batteries when we throw them out?” my roommate asks about once a month, sounding like a worn-out mother. The message: Environmental disasters can strike at any moment. They’re as near as the Duracell sitting in the hallway waste bin. Certain regular acts have now taken on a criminal thrill. Who knew that sneaking a plastic bottle of water up to the room—40 million of the little terrors are thrown out everyday!—could feel so good?I’m pretty sure that a former Dunster House...
...sworn in as Prime Minister.) Government forces stormed the U.N. World Food Program compound in October and briefly took its head of mission hostage. And the jihadis are regrouping. Ayro, now recovered, is back in Mogadishu at the head of the UIC militia. He recently issued a proclamation hailing bin Laden and calling on Somalis to target peacekeepers. In September the U.S. embassy in Nairobi publicly warned it had intelligence that Islamist terrorists were planning to kidnap Western tourists from beaches in Kenya...
...Ronald Reagan lauded as “freedom fighters.” Gannon describes him as a man with no aspirations to government and his organization as one with no intention of ever becoming a terrorist harbor. She also refutes the commonly-held belief that Omar was close with bin Laden from the Taliban’s inception in 1994, calling it revisionist history and contending that the two men did not meet until the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 1996. The Taliban that met with US forces in 2001 was a far cry from the Taliban that...
...What Terrorists Want” is an insightful history of terrorism that offers a clear explanation of the motivations and goals of contemporary terrorists. Richardson provides a valuable context for the bombings and kidnappings that dominate the nightly news, ensuring that the actions of men like Osama bin Ladin appear more purposeful—though no less horrible.It will always be difficult to view the intentional murder of innocent civilians as rational, but “What Terrorists Want” makes it possible to see terrorism as a chosen tactic for an asymmetrical battlefield. By viewing terrorism more objectively...