Suddenly, and seemingly without warning, we were under attack! But perhaps the signs had been there for longer than we’d like to acknowledge. Paul Pillar, a senior CIA intelligence officer who was deputy chief of the CIA’s counter terrorist center, brings that unique perspective to help us understand some of the history, passions and prejudices that paved the slippery slope, making terrorism now an everyday concern. Others have lived with terror, defeated it or brought it into the political mainstream. Which of these courses is to be our destiny? This presentation sets the scene for the weeks that follow.
