Financial Times (June 26)
U.S. “intelligence agencies have for several years identified cyber threats as a bigger risk than terrorism.” Though huge, the threat is little understood. Such is “the opacity of cyber space that the risks of massive miscalculation resulting in catastrophic escalation” are “hair-raisingly high” and the “ultimate nightmare” is “that we might sleepwalk into a cyber-Armageddon, just as Europe’s political leaders had stumbled into the first world war.”
Tags: Cyber threats, Escalation, Europe, Intelligence, Miscalculation, Nightmare, Risk, Sleepwalk, Terrorism, U.S., WW1
The Economist (August 27)
“In the wreckage of the Arab world today, many act as if the idea that Islamists can play a useful democratic role is broken, too. They are being repressed anew by reactionary regimes, challenged by violent jihadists and looked upon with suspicion by voters whom they failed…. Yet the blanket repression of all Islamists is the worst possible response. In the end, it will lead only to more resentment, more turmoil and more terrorism.”
Tags: Arab, Democratic, Islamists, Jihadists, Reactionary, Regimes, Repressed, Resentment, Suspicion, Terrorism, Turmoil, Useful, Voters, Wreckage
Newsweek (August 15)
As events in Charleston illustrates, “anti-government Americans are a bigger threat than Islamists.” Yet, since 9/11, public consciousness has largely fixated on Islamic terrorism. Law enforcement agencies know better. Studies have shown that police “consider anti-government violent extremists, not radicalized Muslims, to be the most severe threat of political violence that they face.”
Tags: 9/11, Anti-government, Charleston, Extremists, Islamists, Police, Terrorism, Threat, Violent
USA Today (June 12)
“Officials mustn’t extend a laptop ban until they can assure the public, with sound data, that they are not trading the possibility of terrorism in the cabin for a greater likelihood of catastrophe in the cargo bay.”
Tags: Airplane, Cabin, Cargo bay, Catastrophe, Data, Laptop ban, Officials, Terrorism
Los Angeles Times (April 11)
“The sad reality is that Monday’s murder-suicide committed in a special needs classroom at North Park Elementary School was as mundane as American gun violence gets—because it was not an act of terrorism or an attack by disgruntled students on their classmates. Rather, it was an act of domestic violence, the kind that occurs every single day in the United States.”
Tags: . Murder-suicide, Domestic violence, Elementary school, Gun violence, Mundane, Sad, Terrorism, U.S.
Washington Post (December 27)
“Europe has been so weakened by the tumultuous events of 2016 that it is left unprepared to deal with the three big foreign policy challenges of 2017:” 1) Donald Trump, 2) “the increasing power of Vladimir Putin,” and 3) terrorism.
Tags: 2016, 2017, Challenges, Europe, Foreign policy, Putin, Terrorism, Trump, Tumultuous events, Weakened
Reuters (November 30)
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan “needs to initiate a change in direction by releasing all caught up in the frenzy of collective punishment, dialing back on Turkey’s emergency laws and revising Turkey’s overbroad terrorism laws.” The witch-hunt has trampled too many basic rights rights. “Not long ago Turkey was on a path of commitment to protect those very rights and values. It’s not too late to return.”
Tags: Commitment, Emergency laws, Erdogan, Punishment, Rights, Terrorism, Turkey, Values, Witch hunt
Chicago Tribune (November 20)
“How many refugees from Syria, Iraq or anywhere, for that matter, have committed acts of terrorism in the United States? Well, zero seems to be the answer.” And yet, out of an abundance of caution, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to restrict Syrian refugees. Talk about misplaced priorities. “When it comes to an actual threat — the near certainty that thousands of Americans will be slaughtered next year and every year going forward by guns in the wrong hands and by guns designed for the efficient killing of human beings — our lawmakers and state chief executives are inert.”
New York Times (November 15)
“The coldblooded depravity with which the terrorists gunned down people seated at restaurant tables and picked off hostages in the Bataclan concert hall where more than 80 were killed was horrifying. But Parisians have remained defiant and united…. This attack will harden the resolve of the French against the savagery of the Islamic State, as it must the world’s.”
Tags: Bataclan, Coldblooded, Defiant, Depravity, France, Hostages, Islamic State, Parisians, Resolve, Savagery, Terrorism, Terrorists, United
Financial Times (April 23)
“The closeness between America and Japan, forged in the ashes of war, goes beyond the ideological…. Theirs has been one of the closest and most enduring of postwar relationships. They stand shoulder to shoulder on most issues from terrorism to intellectual property.”
Tags: Enduring, Ideological, Intellectual property, Japan, Postwar, Terrorism, U.S.
