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Henry “Hank” Crumpton, former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Counterterrorism Center, led an insurgent to overthrow the Taliban and to attack al-Qaeda in Afghanistan just after 9/11. Crumpton spoke at the Aspen Security Forum in July 2012 about the war on terror: “It’s a different type of war. Dealing with terror is going to be more like managing disease”.

It’s a different type of war. Dealing with terror is going to be more like managing disease.

—Henry “Hank” Crumpton, former deputy director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center (July 27, 2012).

Our job as citizens is to ask questions.

—Thomas Blanton, National Security Archive.

George Washington University (December 16, 2010).

We do not have the right to resort to violence—or the threat of violence—when we don’t get our way.

—President Bill Clinton (April 18, 2010).

The tools to change the world are in everybody’s hands, and how we use them is…up to all of us…. Public safety is too important to leave to the professionals.

—Marc Goodman at TEDGlobal 2012.

(June 28, 2012).

Peace is the only path to true security. ... No wall is high enough, and no Iron Dome is strong enough, to stop every enemy from inflicting harm.

—President Barack Obama (March 21, 2013).

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