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U.S. power flows from our unmatched military might, yes. But in a deeper way, it's a product of the dominance of the U.S. economy.

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Politicians often call for sanctions as a way of sounding tough when they don't want to take riskier measures.

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Yes, Europe needs to be more welcoming, but that's only half of it. Muslims need to embrace the obligations of European residence and citizenship.

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European Muslims need to feel ownership of security, rather than viewing the police as an occupying army.

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Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.

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The value of catastrophic events is that they can help people face up to problems that are otherwise impossible to address.

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The European Union needs to reinvent its security system. It needs to break the stovepipes that prevent sharing information, enforcing borders and protecting citizens.

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Experts say that Britain and France have strong spy agencies; Germany's is competent but afraid to level with its public; the rest are relatively weak, and there is no Europe-wide spy agency.

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Apple chief executive Tim Cook is such a respected figure that it's easy to overlook the basic problem with his argument about encryption: Cook is asserting that a private company and the interests of its customers should prevail over the public's interest as expressed by our courts.

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Training a reliable military force that adheres to Western norms and standards is the work of a generation, not a few months.

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