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How Small Attacks Can Grow into Wars
PETER BAKER and SCOTT SHANE, NYTimes
The claim of responsibility by the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda could force a shift in the administration's approach to counter-terrorism in that nation. Until now, the United States authorities considered it important to give Yemen credit for recent strikes against Qaeda training camps and leaders, playing down the American role in providing intelligence and equipment.
But a direct attempt by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to stage an attack on American soil raises the question of whether the United States would have to take broader and more clearly visible retaliatory military action. One government official said the topic was likely to come up before the National Security Council.
"Mr. Obama, making his first public comments since the episode, said he had ordered his national security team "to keep up the pressure" on terrorists. He vowed to "use every element of our national power to disrupt, dismantle and defeat the violent extremists who threaten us, whether they are from Afghanistan or Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia, or anywhere where they are plotting attacks on the U.S. homeland."
Dennis Jones, Living in Barbados
Those who wish to be good cannot get past the barriers of those who wish to be evil. We cannot ship them away. We cannot pen them up away from the rest of us. Every criminal is known and has a protector. Like any social secret the criminal persists because of the facilitators. So, our challenge should be to deal with the facilitators. Each one reach one?
The War Presidents are not Constrained by Congress
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