Excluding the thousands of Shi'ites killed in Iraq at the hands of al Zarqawi, over 2,700 innocent Arab men, women and children have died in separate terrorist attacks orchestrated by al Qaeda throughout the Arab world since 2006 -- a blatant record of cold-blooded terrorism against his own people.
B1 Old Weapons, New Enemies The fight over the survival of the Navy's submarine base in Groton, Conn., has underscored a broader debate: just how many submarines are essential in the post-cold war, terrorism-focused, budget-restricted military?
The Chinese remember very well that in Mr. Bush's first few months in office, his officials described China as a "strategic competitor" -- indeed, they seemed to be seeking a new cold war until terrorism came along as a better issue.
After the Cold War ended, terrorism was clearly America's biggest danger from abroad, proved by the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1996 destruction of the Al Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, the 1998 terrorist attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S.
After the Cold War ended, terrorism was clearly America's biggest danger from abroad, proven by the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1996 destruction of the Al Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, the 1998 terrorist attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S.
With the end of the Cold War, nuclear terrorism has displaced an attack by the Soviet Union as the prime nuclear fear in the minds of most Americans.
While many of the C.I.A.'s successes in the field under Mr. Tenet remain secret, it is clear, for example, that the agency has played a critical role in dealing with one of the most pressing post-cold-war issues, terrorism.
He finds himself struggling with an order to commit an act that can only be called terrorism: the cold-blooded murder of a random British soldier, captured to try to preëmpt the execution of a comrade.
In the past forty-some years, he has written about such diverse topics as Lee Harvey Oswald, mathematics, the Cold War, and global terrorism.
You could gather up a lot of theories about why this is, but the most persuasive one I've heard — most recently from Byron Shafer, a serious-minded political scientist at the University of Wisconsin — is that elections in the post-Vietnam, post-civil rights era turned in large part on two issues: diverging views of how to handle the cold war and then terrorism, and divisive cultural issues.
