In Combating the Ideology of Terror, Washington’s Allies Must Cease Repressing Civil Society
The Trump administration should listen to its counterterrorism strategy.
October 8, 2018
In Combating the Ideology of Terror, Washington’s Allies Must Cease Repressing Civil Society
The Trump administration should listen to its counterterrorism strategy.
Last Thursday, the Trump administration publicized its new national strategy for counterterrorism, which emphasizes the need to go beyond military and law-enforcement measures to defeat jihadism. Indeed, writes Elliott Abrams appreciatively, the “view that terrorists have an ideology, and that we need to combat it, rightly permeates the document.” Abrams in particular praises a statement on the role civil society can play as a bulwark against radical Islam, but worries that the White House might be unwilling to follow through on its implications:
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