Six Lessons from the London Airline Bombing Plot

The foiled bomb plot in the UK offers us and the Bush administration some pointers about the true nature of terrorism and its causes.

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We’re now viewed as destroyers, and destruction is the retort. This is the “new Middle East” that is aborning — one of relentless violence — if we do not end our own relentless violence there. The would-be bombers in London are a reminder of how close it is.

John Tirman is Executive Director of MIT's Center for International Studies . His most recent book is 100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World (Harper Perennial, 2006).

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