Choosing terrorism’s cause dictates whether the policy response is war or diplomacy

Evidence

The solution to terrorism, if understood as resulting from Muslim fundamentalism, is elimination of the terrorist through militarism, incarceration, and war, which has been the primary approach during the War on Terror. Advancing a series of possible root causes as an explanation for terrorism leads to very different, and far more difficult, solutions, which would require addressing the impact of U.S. foreign policies and which would likely diminish, rather than advance, U.S. power on a global scale. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 895 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Root-cause analyses of terrorism touted reduction measures opposing Bush’s war approach; The causal explanation chosen for terrorism dictates which solutions become politically viable — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 895

Broader Connections

• The causal explanation chosen for terrorism dictates which solutions become politically viable #expands (0.95) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 895