Fareed Zakaria: US intervention is not the answer
January 16, 2015 13:20
The Paris attacks were barbaric but also startling, leading many to ask what can be done to prevent this kind of terrorism. One man has a clear answer.
"That attack you saw in Paris? You'll see an attack in the United States," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told the New York Times.
Elaborating on how to stop this from happening, he told the Times and CNN that prevention will require a more aggressive strategy from the U.S. military across the greater Middle East, with ground troops and a no-fly zone in Syria and more troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This theory was sometimes described during the Iraq war as "we fight them there so we don't have to fight them here.' It was wrong then, and it's wrong now.
Read Fareed Zakaria's column for the Washington Post.
"That attack you saw in Paris? You'll see an attack in the United States," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told the New York Times.
Elaborating on how to stop this from happening, he told the Times and CNN that prevention will require a more aggressive strategy from the U.S. military across the greater Middle East, with ground troops and a no-fly zone in Syria and more troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This theory was sometimes described during the Iraq war as "we fight them there so we don't have to fight them here.' It was wrong then, and it's wrong now.
Read Fareed Zakaria's column for the Washington Post.
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