Terrorism | The United Nations Should Not Lead the Fight Against Terrorism

And now the war. With bombs and missiles falling in Afghanistan, a defiant Osama bin Laden1 is promising that “neither America nor the people who live in it will dream of security before [Muslims] live it in Palestine, and not before all the infidel armies leave the land of Muhammad.” Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld predicted in a recent New York Times editorial that this [war against terrorism] will be

a war like none other our nation has faced. . . . It will involve floating coalitions of countries, which may change and evolve. . . . This is not a...

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