My reflections on the attacks of 9/11 begin with conveying the shock and trauma of...
My reflections on the attacks of 9/11 begin with conveying the shock and trauma of that horrible day. One cannot understand with the distance of today how the attack on 9/11 immediately represented a profound strike to the very fiber of American society, a very shock to the idea of normalcy, and a pervasive administering of a sense of imminent threat. It also strangely bored in how alone we the United States, were as a nation. We moved toward responding as a sovereign country, but it was soon apparent how much of the rest of the world was reacting with the concern that the y world in which they had and still lived should resist the change which was inevitable from this attack. Our allies, and even our enemies, sympathized greatly, but…Open
Democrat voters in New Jersey have chosen an al-Qaida-linked associate of the mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to represent the state’s 12th […] Source
“We face new categories and combinations of violent actors that make the established ways of doing counterterrorism insufficient or obsolete. We face a multiplicity of deadly threats from terror groups and non-state actors, often secretly supported by governments who wish to undermine us. Currently, we face three major types of terror groups: • Narcoterrorists and Transnational Gangs • Legacy Islamist Terrorists • Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists.” That’s an excerpt from the new United States Counterterrorism Strategy. It is a welcome acknowledgement of the threats we face. They are real. They are immediate. They are growing. The question, of course, is – what are we actually going to do…Open