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France: Europe's Counterterrorist Powerhouse
Topic: War on Terrorism 7:13 am EST, Nov  6, 2007

Counterterrorism, like espionage and covert action, is not a spectator sport. The more a country practices, the better it gets.

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As a practical matter, there will always be a trade-off of sorts between citizen liberties and the powers a state needs to fight certain threats. Yet it is the paramount duty of any liberal democracy not only to protect the rights associated with a decent political order, but also to protect the lives of its citizens. Exercising power in the name of security is not necessarily illiberal. And as our examination of the French approach to counterterrorism suggests, the exercise of such power can be considerable indeed. It is a point that some liberal and civil libertarian critics of the Bush administration, who too rarely study what is going on abroad, might do well to remember.

France: Europe's Counterterrorist Powerhouse



 
 
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