Unfortunately in all of these Western societies, the
political debate about the root causes and future of
jihadi violence failed to answer this seminal question.
Furthermore, a stunningly compromised expertise
failed its governments by dragging authorities into
chronic misinterpretation of what is happening and
what to do about it. One more time, the experiment
is repeating itself in
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Here is why:
As in the
and other Western democracies, law enforcement
and counterterrorism agencies have been efficient in
monitoring the threat, swift in responding and lucky in
uprooting networks planning terror. With the exceptions
of the first strikes of
and
been able to stop the plots before they are executed;
knock on wood so far. But these law enforcement heroes
are operating under the aegis of questionable government
strategies, or rather non-strategies, with dramatic consequences.
The latest arrests made in
example.
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