Friday, October 3, 2014

War on Terror

Thursday, October 9, 2014, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

We will discuss the renewed war on terror and its affect on the election. We will use this TED Talk by  Chris Fuller as a guide. We will break the discussion in three parts:

  1. The new terror organizations, al-Qaeda 3.0
  2. The underlying causes
  3. How does it end
------ Update 10/9/14 ------

Here is an article by Bruce Riedel, who is mentioned in the above TED Talk, about Al Qaeda 3.0.

This article offers a reason why drones are ineffectual against the current form of Al Qaeda.

2 comments:

  1. Here is an article in the Huff Post that supports the speaker's thesis for ISIL.

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    1. Great, short article. I was first drawn to the photo and imagined how great the guys feel to be in 'uniform,' part of a greater cause, better than women, in a group, etc.

      BTW, hope we start out with a definition of terrorism.

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