But to adequately confront the social movement that Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri inspired a decade ago will require more than military might. It will require a deeper understanding of the social, political, and economic forces that have made Golbal Jihadism such an appealing phenomenon, particularly to Muslim youth. Whatever the War on Terror means, this is an ideological battle that will take place not in the streets of Baghdad or in the mountains of Afghanistan but in the suburbs of Paris, the slums of East London, and the cosmopolitan cities of Berlin and New York. It is a battle that
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