Europe is asking better questions on terror
Slowly, it seems, more and more thoughtful people in the West are asking deeper and more useful questions about the terror threat and how to solve it, including some among the ideological skinheads whose peculiar intellectual hooliganism still defines much foreign policy-making in the U.K. and U.S. They are painstakingly moving towards a more comprehensive and accurate appreciation of the fact that religion, identity, socio-economic conditions, foreign policy, terrorism, and political governance systems are separate issues that impact on one another in subtle and changing ways, with the trigger for terrorism usually being a combination of humiliation and deep vulnerability in the face of foreign military and political power….. Continue Reading