Are Efforts to Reduce Terrorism Successful?

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Are Efforts to Reduce Terrorism Successful? | America Is Losing the War on Terrorism

Karina Rollins is a senior editor at the American Enterprise.

The multifaceted war on terrorism is going badly. Domestic security is a joke; airline security is minimal and inefficient, while vulnerable sectors of the homeland, such as ports, factories, and power plants, remain completely unprotected. Police, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians are underfunded and disorganized, while members of the intelligence community still do not have key terror-fighting tools. The nation also continues to lack adequate defense against biological, chemical, and nuclear...

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