Rebalancing American Foreign Policy

According to the State Department, some forty-two groups around the globe employ terrorism as a strategy to accomplish their specific aims.5 To lump these groups together is to define the threat in a way that is overly broad : it conflates Islamic extremists in Algeria with Marxist rebels in Colombia, Shiite fundamentalists in Lebanon with Sunni radicals in Pakistan. [...] the United States should abandon the notion that it can or should seek to discourage others from challenging its political leadership or military primacy.\n Finally, the United States should promote greater coordination between the military and civilian agencies, especially in the context of counterinsurgency and nation-building efforts.