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JAKARTA — Ansyaad Mbai, the director of Indonesia's National Counterterrorism Agency, has a genealogy of terrorism spread across his office wall.
And as such, he contended, they were more likely to export terrorism, spread dangerous weapons, or start ethnic conflicts.
So we didn't get involved, and, yes: Terrorism spread, the country fell apart, you got millions of refugees, and Russia got involved.
The administration's total spending on countering terrorism, spread across many agencies, has risen from $5 billion to $7 billion over the past three years—hardly a challenge to the $260-billion 260-billion defence
One, admittedly, is generic to all bad times: the fact that it is when unemployment is rising, or incomes are falling, or prospects seem dim, or threats of war and terrorism spread fear and anger, that politicians come under the greatest pressure and temptation to close borders or to slap controls on freedoms of all kinds, whether civil or commercial.
These, of course, are the politicians and pundits who threw in their lot with George W. Bush in 2003: voting and writing for a "preventive war" — a war of choice that would avenge 9/11, clean up Iraq, stifle Islamic terrorism, spread shock, awe and democracy across the Middle East and re-affirm the credentials of a benevolently interventionist America.
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A widening current-account gap is less likely to be filled by tourism revenues if PKK terrorism spreads.
The most unsettling scenarios include a major war and terrorism spreading from the Middle East and South Asia, accompanied by an oil shock and a depression.
The recent coup in Mali allowed Tuareg insurgents in the north to gain ground, prompting fears of terrorism spreading throughout the Sahel desert borderlands of west Africa.
With Isis-connected terrorism spreading in many parts of the world and illiberalism growing in Europe on the back of the refugee crisis, Syria has become a security threat well beyond the Middle East.
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