WaPo: Counterinsurgency Against 'Right-Wing Extremists' May Backfire
The Washington Post published an op-ed on Monday discussing the idea of launching a war-on-terror style campaign against domestic right-wing extremists and listing reasons why such a move may do more harm than good. The essay, penned by journalist Khaled Diab, begins by quoting the reaction of Robert Grenier, a former CIA officer who once served as director of counterterrorism, to the early January Capitol riot. Grenier positively presented the war on terror as a template for action against domestic targets. He wrote in the New York Times: We may be witnessing the dawn of a sustained wav...