Cures for Terrorism

Abstract

Two days after the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, 2015, a senior U.S. intelligence official told CNN: “We’ve expected this. The boundaries between all of these affiliates are seemingly breaking down and the threat is metastasizing and turning into a global network”. In other words, terrorism is metastasizing like cancer in the global body of humanity.

We do not have the right to resort to violence — or the threat of violence — when we don’t get our way.

— President Bill Clinton (April 18, 2010)

Our job as citizens is to ask questions.

— Thomas Blanton , National Security Archive

George Washington University (December 16, 2010)

The tools to change the world are in everybody’s hands, and how we use them is…up to all of us. … Public safety is too important to leave to the professionals.

— Marc Goodman at TEDGlobal 2012 (June 28, 2012)

It’s a different type of war. Dealing with terror is going to be more like managing disease.

— Henry “Hank” Crumpton , deputy director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center (July 27, 2012)

Peace is the only path to true security. … No wall is high enough, and no Iron Dome is strong enough, to stop every enemy from inflicting harm.

— President Barack Obama (March 21, 2013)

The bottom line is, you don’t beat an idea by beating a person. You beat an idea by beating an idea.

— Jon Lovett , former speechwriter to President Obama (April 7, 2014)