Trump and Counter-Terrorism, Sixteen Years After 9/11

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🗓️ 10 September 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

It's been 16 years since the 9/11 attacks.

We thought a good way to commemorate the anniversary would be to take stock of the terrorist threats facing the United States today and to evaluate how the Trump administration is responding. Guest host Stephen Tankel tackles these issues with an all-star cast of experts, including Victor Asal, Tricia Bacon, Mia Bloom, Dan Byman, Julia Ebner, John Horgan, Gary LaFree, Phil Potter, Jake Shapiro, and Joe Young.

This wide-ranging discussion touches on radicalization, allies in the fight against terrorism, intelligence gathering, the travel ban, Trump's inflammatory religious rhetoric, the relationship between far-right and Islamist violence, and more.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Stephen Tankel, a senior editor at War on the Rocks.
0:09.0	Our topic today is terrorism. Kel, a senior editor at War on the Rocks.
0:12.6	Our topic today is terrorism.
0:15.1	Since 9-11, when people hear the word terrorism,
0:17.7	there's a tendency to think of Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State.
0:21.2	And we're certainly going to talk about these organizations and the people they inspire.
0:25.0	But as the recent terrorist attack in Charlottesville highlighted,
0:28.0	we also face a threat from far-right extremists.
0:31.0	This threat is not new. However, the threat may be growing and we're going to look at the administration's approach to counterterrorism both abroad and at home.
0:40.0	To do that, we reached out to experts who study terrorism for a living
0:43.5	and ask them to offer their insights on the most notable aspects of the
0:47.1	administration's counterterrorism policies thus far.
0:50.4	Let's start with where counterterrorism fits into the administration's foreign policy.
0:55.0	Phil Potter, an associate professor and director of the National Security Policy Center at the University of Virginia, had this to say.
1:04.0	During the campaign and early in the administration,
1:06.5	I think there were a lot of indications
1:08.5	that the war against terrorism or the continuation of that idea, sort of a continuation from the Bush administration's
1:15.9	notions about these things would be the driving motivation of Trump foreign policy to the
1:21.4	extent that there was sort of a clear indication of what
1:25.1	the organizing principle of the foreign policy would be of US strategy.
1:29.6	It was going to be something to do with the Middle East and something to do with terrorism. The fight against Islamic State seemed to
1:36.4	figure very prominently and this was sort of a constant theme in the rhetoric.
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