Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the US viewed the Islamic world almost exclusively through the prism of the “global war on terror.” Now, however, policymakers admit that it was precisely the persistence of secular Arab autocracies that encouraged Islamist terrorism.
如此变局的影响是巨大的。2011年9月11日恐怖袭击发生后，美国的“全球恐怖战争”望远镜中就只有伊斯兰世界。但是，如今，决策者承认，正是世俗阿拉伯独裁者给了伊斯兰恐怖主义生长的温床。