And ''international terrorism'' does not adequately describe what we are up against. Terrorism is
the name of a style of warfare in service of a cause. It is the cause, and the passions informing it,
that confront us. Focusing on something called international terrorism -- detached from any
specific purposeful agenda -- only confuses matters. This should have been evident when
President Vladimir Putin of Russia insisted that any war against international terrorism must have
as one of its objectives victory against the rebels in Chechnya