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Hanson on Decter on Rumsfeld. Quotable:

As Decter points out, our current policy linking terrorism — which, after all, is merely a method, not an enemy per se — to real governments reflects Rumsfeld’s carefully acquired past understanding of how such killers work. As early as 1987, he was warning in public speeches that the United States could not stop terrorist attacks against its citizens "until it redefines the process as warfare by hostile governments rather than isolated acts." To anyone curious about who is the driving force behind the idea of taking the war to regimes that abet terrorism while at the same time hunting down the miscreants themselves, the answer is Rumsfeld.