This Strategy is significant not merely because of its operational recommendations, but because of the strategies in the President's underlying philosophy. For the first time in years, the United States government is explicitly recognizing that terrorism is ideological, civilizational, and increasingly interconnected. It is about barbarity versus the civilized world. Our strategy rejects the failed assumptions of the last decade that treated terrorism primarily as a socioeconomic problem or a law enforcement management issue. (04:17–04:26)
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Asserts that the U.S. government now recognizes terrorism as ideological, civilizational, and interconnected.
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