Winning the war against terror
Oliver Kamm argues:The Stop the War Coalition (a front organisation for the Socialist Workers' Party) declared last week in its statement on the London bombings: It is clearer than ever that the "war on terror" in which Britain has been so heavily involved has not, in fact, made the world safer from terrorism.
The Schadenfreude is indecent, but the confident historical assertion is still less justified. We cannot know at this point whether overthrowing the Taliban and Saddam Hussein has made the world safer from terrorism.
This is true. There used to be a convenient report, which Oliver used as a benchmark as to how the war on terror was going, the State Departments' "Patterns of Global Terror". Alas after the 2003 edition had to be restated after it was shown to have missed out much of the year's terrorist attacks, and the 2004 edition said that terrorism was at a 20-year high, the 2005 report was scrapped.
posted by Matthew @ 7/14/2005 10:22:00 PM
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