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<\/a><\/p>\nJessica Stern,<\/a> Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published a recent Op-Ed discussing whether the war on terror is winnable as we approach the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n Stern wrote an article entitled “Is the War on Terrorism Really Winnable?”<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on September 9, 2016 for\u00a0BU Today\u2019s<\/a> POV Series,<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>an opinion page that provides timely commentaries from students, faculty, and staff on a variety of issues: on-campus, local, state, national, or international.<\/span><\/p>\n From the text of the Op-Ed:<\/p>\n On the 15th anniversary of the tragic attacks on the United States by a millenarian hate group determined to punish American citizens, it is hard not to return to nagging questions: Are we any safer than we were on September 10, 2001? Can we win this seemingly endless war on terror?<\/p>\n The United States has spent roughly a trillion dollars<\/a> in its war on terrorism, since the 9\/11 attacks, depending on what we include in the assessment. The figure is significantly higher if we add in the costs of the continuing military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, according to the Watson Institute\u2019s Costs of War<\/a>project. What has that money bought us? It is now much more difficult for foreign terrorists to get into the country than it was before 9\/11, and there are numerous impediments to carrying out a 9\/11-style attack. Our worst fears, immediately after 9\/11, have not been realized. No nonstate enemy\u2014ISIS or any other\u2014poses an existential threat to the continued viability of our country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You can read the entire Op-Ed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Stern\u2019s main focus is on perpetrators of violence and the possible connections between trauma and terror.\u00a0 She has written on terrorist groups across religions and ideologies, among them neo-Nazis, Islamists, anarchists, and white supremacists.\u00a0 She has also written about counter-radicalization programs for both neo-Nazi and Islamist terrorists. <\/span>Learn more about her here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Research Professor Jessica Stern discusses whether the war on terror is winnable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[9287,9695,9099,8859,9059,9100,8398],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24255,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252\/revisions\/24255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}