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Less rhetoric from politicians would be a welcome start. Terror as a tactic is as old as history so some qualifications are in order: the US is dealing with Islamic extremism, a perversion of one of the world's great religions. In the short term, cooperation with foreign governments is key, especially Egypt, Pakistan, Syria and Iran. The US needs to start engaging the latter two in diplomacy in order to gain information from their intelligence services- hang ups about nuclear development must be put aside, for now. Second, the US must foster dialogue between the Iranians and the Israelis, perhaps through a third party like Jordan (again, much easier said than done). This is the principle failing of the current administration; diplomacy is not important to them, period.
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