The recent attacks should be understood as “blowback terrorism”: a dreadful unintended result of repeated US and European covert and overt military actions throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Central Asia that aimed to overthrow governments and install regimes compliant with Western interests. These operations have not only destabilized the targeted regions, causing great suffering; they have also put populations in the US, the European Union, Russia, and the Middle East at significant risk of terror.
最近的袭击应当被理解为“反弹式恐怖主义”：即美欧在整个中东、北非、非洲之角和中亚地区一再开展隐蔽和公开军事行动，推翻政府并扶植符合西方利益的政权所造成的可怕的意外后果。上述行动不仅破坏了目标区域的稳定并造成极大痛苦；也使得美国、欧盟、俄罗斯和中东民众面临严重的恐怖威胁。