Are Efforts to Reduce Terrorism Successful? | A War on Terrorism Is Futile
Michael Massing is the author of The Fix, a critical study of the war on drugs. His work has also appeared in the Nation and on Alternet. He is the former executive editor ofColumbia Journalism Review.
If the war on terrorism is modeled on the war on drugs—a continual battle against an elusive and changing enemy—it will be an ongoing failure. A military response to terrorism will only create more terrorism. Targeting specific terrorists is also not a permanent solution, as more will simply spring up to replace those removed. Instead of a war on...
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