For the first time in years, the United States government is explicitly recognizing that terrorism is is not an abstract phenomenon. It is ideological. It is civilizational. It is 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. Instead, it restores a very simple principle. There are people movements and regimes which hate America, hate the west, hate Israel, hate the Jewish people, hate the Judeo Christian moral code upon which our civilization is built. (04:40–04:52)
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Asserts that the new strategy rejects previous assumptions that terrorism is mainly a socioeconomic or law enforcement issue.
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