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• Position: WASHINGTON PULSE: NEWS FROM INSIDE THE BELTWAY - On terrorist groups, and United States' counterterrorism strategy

* Good news: All terrorist groups eventually end. The bad news, alas, is that the United States has the wrong counterterrorism strategy, concludes a recent Rand Corp. study.

Researchers examined 648 terrorist groups that existed between 1968 and 2006. Most of those groups eventually disappeared either because they joined the political process or because local police and intelligence agencies arrested or killed key members. "Military force has rarely been...