February 7, 2017

"Synopsis

The new Trump administration has made the eradication of 'radical Islamic terrorism from the face of the earth' a policy priority. However such terminology reveals a flawed understanding of the true nature of the ongoing transnational terrorist threat.

Commentary

NEW US President Donald J. Trump has made it very clear that a central focus of his tenure will be, in his own words, to 'eradicate radical Islamic terrorism from the face of the earth'. In adopting such rhetoric Trump has gone further than Barack Obama and George W. Bush, his immediate predecessors. Both took care to avoid associating Islam with the terrorist threat posed by the likes of Al Qaeda and later the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). That Trump means business was illustrated by the attack by US Navy Seals on 28 January 2017 on the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) network in Yemen, in which 14 militants were reportedly killed, along with an American soldier."

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