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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, April 24th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor

of The New Yorker. President Obama's counterterrorism rhetoric and methodology often appear

little different from those of his predecessor. Here's George W. Bush in 2002. These evil ones

still want to hit us, but after September the 11th, America is now ready. We're after

them. Any hint of somebody wanting to harm our country, we're acting. And here's Barack Obama in

2010. We are at war. We are at war against Al Qaeda, a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9-11,

that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people, and that is plotting to strike us again.

And we will do whatever it takes to defeat them.

In the wake of the bombings of the Boston Marathon, we're talking today about these policies and about how effective they've been with David Remnick and Jane Mayer.

David, tell us a little bit about the background of the Sarniaf brothers and what sort of policy

implications, if any, these bombings will have. I'm not sure they have any policy implications.

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