Are We Doing Enough To Attack Terrorism?

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Are we doing enough to attack terrorism? The U.S. puts service members in highly populated terrorist countries to prevent terrorist activity. We still have terrorist activity in the U.S. and in the terrorist countries. How can we smother terrorism so it never happens again? Countering terrorism is quite difficult when the terrorists continue to attack soft targets when we least expect it.That’s why we need to deploy more troops, increase protection and watchlists, and attack the main terrorist strongholds.

The U.S. has troops stationed all over the world to monitor terrorist activity. For example, we have troops in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Turkey, and that’s not even all of them. “The continent is home to an "extensive archipelago

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