Eight Years After 9/11 ①

Why Osama bin Laden is a Failure
107. Eight Years After 9/11: Why Osama bin Laden is a Failure
By Tony Karon Friday. TIME Sep. 11, 2009

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He may have eluded justice and the long reach of the world's most powerful military force his followers may (and probably will) strike again at some point in the future, near or distant but history's verdict on Osama bin Laden has been in for some time, now: Al-Qaeda failed.
The 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington like those that preceded it in East Africa in 1998 and those that followed in London, Madrid, Bali and other places were tactical successes, in that they managed to kill hundreds of innocents, grab the world's headlines and briefly dominate the nightmares of Western policy makers. But the strategy of which those attacks formed part has proven to be fundamentally flawed. Terrorism departs from the rules of war by deliberately targeting the innocent, but it shares the basic motive force of conventional warfare "the pursuit of politics by other means, " as Clausewitz wrote.

A. 어휘
a failure 실패한 사람(a+추상명사→보통명사). elude 피하다, 벗어나다, 속이다.
justice 징벌, 재판, 정의. reach 유효범위, 힘이 미치는 곳, 능력.
follower 추종자. verdict 評決(평결), 審判(심판). precede 先行(선행)하다.
tactical 전술적인. in that ...이라는 점에서, 때문에(=because, since).
innocent 죄 없는 사람. grab 갑자기 움켜쥐다, 낚아채다.
briefly 잠시동안, 간단히. dominate 주도하다, 지배하다. strategy 전략.
fundamentally 근본적으로. flaw 무효로 되다, 금이 가다, 효과가 없다.
departs from 常軌(상궤)를 벗어나다, 逸脫(일탈)하다.
deliberately 고의적으로. the innocent 죄 없는 사람들(the+형용사→복수보통명사).
conventional warfare 在來式(재래식) 전쟁. pursuit 추구. politics 정치, 정책, 책략.
Clausewitz(1780-1831) 독일의 장군 및 軍事學者(군사학자).

B. 구문
- Terrorism departs from the rules . . . other means, " as Clausewitz wrote.
[테러는 의도적으로 無故(무고)한 사람들을 표적으로 삼음으로써 전쟁규칙에서 일탈하고 있지만 그것은 재래식 전쟁의 기본적인 動力(동력)을 공유하고 있다. 그것은 Clausewitz가 썼던 것처럼 “다른 수단에 의한 정치의 추구”이다.

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The purpose of the 9/11 attacks was not simply to kill Americans they formed part of Bin Laden's strategy to launch a global Islamist revolution aimed at ending U.S. influence in Muslim countries, overthrowing regimes there allied with Washington, and putting al-Qaeda at the head of a global Islamist insurgency whose objective was to restore the rule of the Islamic Caliphate that had once ruled territory stretching from Moorish Spain through much of Asia.
Today, of course, al-Qaeda is believed to comprise a couple of hundred desperate men, their core leaders hiding out in Pakistan's tribal wilds and under constant threat of attack by ever-present U.S. drone aircraft, their place in Western nightmares and security assessments long-since eclipsed by such longtime rivals as Iran, Hizballah, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. This year's official threat assessment by the U.S. Directorate of National Intelligence cited the primary security challenge facing the U.S. as the global economic downturn. The report cited "notable progress in Muslim public opinion turning against terrorist groups like al-Qaeda", and said no country was at risk of falling to Qaeda-inspired extremists. It argued that sustained pressure against the movement's surviving core in the Pakistani tribal wilds was degrading its organizational cohesion and diminishing the threat it poses.

A. 어휘
strategy 전략. launch 착수하다, 進水(진수)시키다. overthrow 전복시키다.
regime 政權(정권). ally 동맹하다. insurgency 폭동, 반란.
objective 목적. restore 복구하다, 부활하다.
Caliphate 마호메트의 후계자인 칼리프가 통치하는 나라, 이슬람 神政國家(신정국가).
territory 영토. Moorish Spain 회교도들이 지배한 스페인. Moor 무어 사람.
comprise 包括(포괄)하다. desperate 필사적인, 자포자기의, 절망적인.
tribal wilds 부족장이 다스리는 미개지. threat 위협. ever-present 항상 존재하는.
drone 無人耭(무인기), 수펄. aircraft 비행기. drone aircraft 무인비행기.
security 안전, 안보. assessment 평가. long-since 오래 전부터.
eclipse 해, 달의 蝕(식), 빛을 가리다, 무색케 하다, 능가하다.
Directorate 이사회. cite 인용하다, 引證(인증)하다. primary 제 1의, 중요한.
inspire 주입하다, 고취하다, 영감을 주다. extremist 극단주의자.
sustained 지속된, 한결같은.
the movement's surviving core 그 운동(알카에다)의 잔존 핵심세력.
degrade 저하시키다, 평가를 떨어뜨리다. organizational cohesion 조직의 응집력.
diminish 감소시키다.

B. 구문
- their place in Western nightmares . . . and the Muslim Brotherhood.
cf. eclipsed→being eclipsed
[서방세계에 일으키는 공포와 안보평가에서 그들이 차지하는 비중은 그들의 경쟁자인 Iran, Hizballah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood 같은 테러단체에게 오래 전에 벌써 압도당하였다.]
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