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by Alan M. Dershowitz • May 23, 2017
at 3:00 pm
Every time a horrendous terrorist attack victimizes
innocent victims we wring our hands and promise to increase security
and take other necessary preventive measures. But we fail to recognize
how friends and allies play such an important role in encouraging,
incentivizing, and inciting terrorism.
If we are to have any chance of reducing terrorism, we
must get to its root cause. It is not poverty, disenfranchisement,
despair or any of the other abuse excuses offered to explain, if not to
justify, terrorism as an act of desperation. It is anything but. Many
terrorists, such as those who participated in the 9/11 attacks, were
educated, well-off, mobile and even successful. They made a rational
cost-benefit decision to murder innocent civilians for one simple
reason: they believe that terrorism works.
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