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The United States has been at war with radical Islamist terrorism for at
least 35 years, starting with the November 1979 Iranian seizure of the U.S.
Embassy in Tehran and taking of 52 American hostages. President Jimmy Carter
, in his State of the Union address two months later, declared the American
captives “innocent victims of terrorism.”
For the next two decades, radical Islamist terrorism grew more powerful and
more sophisticated. On Sept. 11, 2001, a remarkably sophisticated effort by
Islamist terrorists killed nearly 3,000 Americans in New York City,
Washington, D.C., and western Pennsylvania.
In response to the worst attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor, President
George W. Bush told a joint session of Congress: “Our war on terror begins
with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every
terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.”
We have clearly failed to meet that goal. After more than 13 years of war,
with thousands of Americans dead, tens of thousands of Americans wounded,
and several trillion dollars spent, the U.S. and its allies are losing the
war with radical Islamism. The terrorists of Islamic State are ravaging Iraq
and Syria, Boko Haram is widening its bloody swath through Nigeria, al
Qaeda and its affiliates are killing with impunity in Somalia, Yemen and
beyond, and the Taliban are resurgent in Afghanistan. The killings in Paris
at Charlie Hebdo and at a kosher supermarket are only the most recent
evidence of the widening menace of radical Islamism. |
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