Five years have passed since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September, 2001, yet it seems that policymakers have learned little about how terrorist cells operate, and what their weaknesses are. The Bush administration still uses the phrase “war on terror” and behaves as though it really is a war, the ordinary kind where one government fights another.
2001年9月对纽约、华盛顿的恐怖袭击已经过去5年了，但决策者们似乎对恐怖组织的运作方式及其弱点鲜有了解。布什政府还在使用“反恐战争”的词汇，他们的所作所为就像真的在打一场政府和政府之间的常规战争。但5年过去了，以单一侵略者为目标的策略只能让情况越变越糟。现在该是了解新出现的冲突模式的时候了。