You got me. That was the understanding in the White House and the intelligence community. The story ran and the lights went out.
"Daniel Benjamin" is an American diplomat and journalist, and was the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the United States Department of State from 2009 to 2012, appointed by Secretary Clinton. He is Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College.
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The war on terror is going to get tougher and tougher the longer this kind of thing goes on. We're going to pay a big price for allowing these unwanted side effects and stories in the war on terror to pile up.
They realize we are very unnerved by this. . . . I see the spread of it as a tactic as an indication of the strength of the ideology for Muslim radicals.
The protests were entirely to be expected. The Pakistanis know the U.S., if it gets high-quality intelligence, is going to act.
Everyone says there's a war of ideas out there, and I agree. The sad fact is that we're on the wrong side.
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