Terrorism’s Fertile Ground
By KENNEDY ODEDEJAN. 8, 2014
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/opinion/terrorisms-fertile-ground.html?_r=0
If we pursue an antiterrorism strategy based on tactical strikes, it will only further a cycle of violence. The perpetual sense of anger experienced in urban poverty will ensure that there are always new terrorist leaders to replace those who are killed. The war on terror can be won only through education, promise and real opportunities.
It is time to give young men like my friends, and like those today living in urban slums, hope. That is the only way to end the violence that preys on our cities’ most vulnerable.