policy saying we have a real opportunity right now with this african leaders summit to rethink the way we approach counterterrorism in africa. we poured billions of dollars in it over 20 years, and yours truly we re only seeing volent extremism increase. we focus so much on the military approach instead of really looking at the drivers of this issue, which based on my specious working at the state department, is that when human rights abuses are being committed, when hill tears are committing abuses against their populations, that s driving recruitment. it we want to be able to address the issue, what we need to do is focus on increasing governance in africa and really work with governments there to make sure they understand what they need to do to bring young people into the government to make sure that everyone in the country feels included and have a stake in the future of those countries. chinese trade with africa is about four times that of the u.s.
information. if the u.s. would be more judicious and sparing and accurate, then we wouldn t have the problem in which drones are sort of driving recruitment because no one is out in the street protesting when an al qaeda member gets killed. it s the civilian casualties that are the key. to that point you wrote on foreignpolicy.com, compounding the problem is the u.s. insistence on focusing on personalities instead of the broader network. this is what cia officials refer to as mowing the law of terrorism. it comes at the root of not attacking the system. we re not getting at the root problem. what would a different strategy look like that actually would attack the roots of the problem? right. so i think the obama administration isn t going to tomorrow sit down and say, we need to rethink our yemen policy, this isn t working. people have been criticizing what it is that they re doing for some time, but i think the obama administration can make sort of three basic tweaks to that that
but very much an in-your-face demonstration. there are a couple other t n things going on there as well, they re trying to bring back an open era in american politics where guns with a normative part of the practice of politics. if you look at this country s history in the late 18th century and early 19th century, a lot of politics involved. guns were a part of physical festivity. i think they re trying to bring that back. let me ask you to look at the larger trend. it does appear we are seeing a rise in right wing extremism recently. there are a number of studies that have looked at this. the department of homeland security says it s perhaps the economy or the president s race. what do you see as driving recruitment right now beyond just sort of the generic more