But, far from being uncertain or indecisive, the democratic world responded with unrelenting determination to terrorist outrages of all shapes and sizes. Across Europe and in America, new arrangements have been set up to pool information about possible terrorist attacks and take the speedy (and sometimes robust) action needed to prevent or disrupt them.
但民主世界对此却毫不犹豫，迅速对各类大小恐怖行为作出了一连串反应。欧美各地纷纷建立了相关机制以共享潜在恐怖袭击信息，并采取迅速（有时甚至有点粗暴）的行动来防止或是扑灭这些威胁，同时还尽可能地与印度、俄罗斯、巴基斯坦，海湾国家以及其他重要国际伙伴展开密切合作。