He is particularly irked by those critics of Guantanamo Bay, including Washington's Western partners, who have now abandoned their citizens in desolate camps strung out across Syria and Iraq. He says these countries should take them back. The vast bulk of that has been spent on "kinetic" military action, as well as intelligence-gathering and drone strikes.
Only a tiny fraction has gone towards prevention - steering people away from the path of extremism. Shiraz Maher from Kings College London's International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation believes this war has helped spawn many of today's other problems in society.
So you can see a cascading series of consequences. So I think it's fair to say that the 'War on Terror' is far from over in many senses. So will there ever be an end to this amorphous campaign? Will there be a decisive "Mission Accomplished" moment that brings the so-called War on Terror to a close? It is unlikely. Because, like crime, terrorism can only be reduced to what officials call "manageable levels".
And today there is already a newly emerging threat, that of far-right extremism, something that will likely breathe new life into what appears to be a War without End. Realism about Allies: What the U. Americans must be realistic about what they expect from allies.
We rightly prefer to engage on a multilateral basis and with as broad a coalition as possible, but find ourselves surprised, offended, and alienated. Americans must accept that no two states have perfectly aligned interests and tensions will always hinder full cooperation of our partners. Is Iran an Ally or Enemy? Diplo is a non-profit foundation established by the governments of Malta and Switzerland.
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Resource type. Aldo Matteucci. It is not that the author fails to provide an inside view of what fighting terrorism in Washington is all about. On the contrary — the book is replete with heroes and villains, visionaries, fools and fighters.
There is no dearth of action — or inaction — as the thunderous terrorist threat advances and obscures the sun. In the end, however, one is left with the impression that in some strange way these anti-terrorists are battling fictions, phantoms, shadows without substance.
Granted the implacable threat and — as it turned out — the unspeakable damage that it caused, what is the nature of the fundamentalist Islamic threat, what are its origins and causes? Surely to be successful a cure against such a monstrous disease one must go beyond the recognition of the syndrome and the use of effective palliatives to the identification of the deeper, biological causes.
And if so, is it credible? These two questions go in my view to the core of the strategy for fighting al-Qaeda. Monotheist religions are by nature universalistic, hence expansive. Islam used war from the outset — by the end of the Omaiyyad Dynasty around A. The Caliphate has yielded jihad. Charlemagne liquidated 4, Saxon prisoners on a single day at Verden in AD. Crusades was the next phase and, after the Western society became secularised, imperialism. Common to both of them is also the desire for plunder.
Plunder usually bested missionary drive — for the fighting masses heavenly rewards were never more than re-insurance. If the Ottoman Caliphate survived until , its expansive force had ended with the Pace of Karlowitz in The West on the other hand went on i. Both Islam and Christianity proselytised beyond the reach of their territories.
From the outset the Christian drive was conscious and systematic.
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