Cures for Terrorism

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” (1).