COUNTER-TERRORISM, like defence, is one of the last redoubts of national sovereignty in Europe.

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Statesmen necessarily face deeply unappealing choices which academics and commentators in their suburban literary redoubts are spared.

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Even in states that are normally Democratic redoubts, such as California and Washington, races are rated as toss-ups.

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Evicting the intruders from their mountain redoubts with ground forces alone was beginning to look like a protracted and expensive task.

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But war remains an everyday horror elsewhere, and the specter of more mass killing haunts even the calm redoubts of North America.

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It has been pushed from its last redoubts in the capital, Mogadishu, even though it retains the ability to launch suicide bombings in the city.

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