CNN CNN Newsroom May 23, 2013 18:12:00
To terrorism at the world trade center and our military facilities in saudi arabia and in our embassy in kenya. these attacks were all brutal, they were all deadly, and we learned that, left unchecked, these threats can grow. but if dealt with smartly and proportional, these threats need not rise to the level that we saw on the eve of 9/11. moreover, we have to recognize that these threats don't arrive in a vacuum. most, though not all, of the terrorism that we face is fueled by a common ideology, belief by some extremists that islamist conflict with the united states and the west and that vio...