The War on Terror Is the Right Response

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For the motion, the war on terror was the right response to nine, 11 hundred, 79, four, 323 against. But they do need to work with the governments of the developing world to be allowed access to the people who need their help. When you get that kind of partnership between what the west, in its dono mode, can give and what the developing world can absorb and receive and act on, you are getting a partnership that does far more to deal with security issues than the direct use of military force. That's what we're trying to say.

Have the West’s efforts to eradicate Al-Qaeda around the world simply been fuelling the flames of hatred and violence? Or would we have suffered even more atrocities if we’d left the militants to plot in their hiding places? Is the US right to be pursuing its hard line against militants in countries such as Pakistan and Yemen? These are just some of the questions explored in this Intelligence Squared debate from September 2011, which saw former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf and former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Colleen Graffy defend the motion. Opposing the motion were former French foreign minister and co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières Bernard Kouchner and former UK Permanent Representative at the United Nations in New York Sir Jeremy Greenstock. The debate was chaired by BBC World News presenter Zeinab Badawi.

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