A Thousand Points of Hate

mount another 9/11-style spectacular.
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crop up: vi) appear suddenly

fall in with ┅와 우연히 만나다; ┅에 동의하다; ┅에 참가하다; ┅와 조화[일치]하다, ┅에 적응하다; (점·때가) ┅와 부합하다.
Young Somali-Americans who left a world of poverty and gangs in Minnesota to take up jihad in the land of their fathers have fallen in with groups like the Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab that turned some of them into suicide bombers.

come [draw, gather] to a head (종기가) 곯아 터질 지경이 되다; 때가 무르익다; 위기에 처하다; 막바지에 이르다. cf) fester

heedless U.S. support for Israel. 무분별한

The surge of 30,000 new troops to Afghanistan has given extremists propaganda material to argue that America is bent on the unending occupation of that country.

case: (속어) 잘 조사하다, 음미하다(examine carefully), (범행 전에) 보아두다.
The New York police worry that David Headley, who was arrested in Chicago and accused of conducting surveillance in advance of 2008's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, may also have cased potential targets in Manhattan.

But the best defense remains a smart, discreet, devastating offense, and that effort has to be relentless.


At the same time, it's essential to discredit Al Qaeda's ideology, which inspires the Abdulmutallabs and the Major Hasans of this world. Obama must not succumb to the old rhetoric of global confrontation and clashing civilizations. He needs to keep the focus on those small groups and individuals who present a real threat while engaging in the battle of ideas from the high ground of traditional American values. That is why, even though some Guantánamo graduates have wound up leading terrorist cells, as in Yemen, the closing of that not-quite-constitutional prison on the Cuban shore is imperative. The contagion of Al Qaeda's ideas feeds on the notion that Muslims everywhere are oppressed and under constant attack; that their lands are occupied; that their values are disrespected and their faith defiled. And whenever the United States can be lured into a situation that seems to prove those views true, any tactical victory will be outweighed by the strategic setback in the war for Muslim hearts and minds.

So, while the United States continues aggressive operations in the shadows, Obama has to keep the American profile as low as possible. And that will be difficult when his administration is under partisan attack for being soft on national security. He must resist the temptation to claim a covert victory overtly, as the Bush administration did before the midterm elections in 2002 when it scored a Predator hit against an earlier generation of Qaeda leaders in Yemen. No allies in the Muslim world want to be seen working with the United States to kill other Muslims. Obama must not let the United States get dragged into another overt war, and must continue extricating American troops from the occupations he inherited. And, toughest of all, he needs to find a way to calm American nerves at a time when hysterical rhetoric is the stuff of daily discourse.