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The 9/11 Commission Report


(bitterlemons-international.org) Matthew A. Levitt- The 9/11 Commission Report's analysis identifies the enemy not as "terrorism" or "Islam" but "Islamist terrorism," a perversion of Islam, and recognizes the need not only to dismantle terror networks, but to defeat the ideology that supports them. Yet the report's recommendations regarding policy toward the Middle East are broad and undefined. The report identifies the removal of terrorist sanctuaries as a paramount tactical objective, but never prescribes a means of removing sanctuaries without empowering the very "repressive political regimes" it seeks to reform. The writer is a senior fellow in terrorism studies at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
2004-09-03 00:00:00
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