Juliette Kayyem

By Asad Hashim in Americas on September 8th, 2011
Photo by Asad Hashim/Al Jazeera

Is it time to end the 'War on Terror'?

That was the motion under debate on Wednesday night in New York City, as the Intelligence Squared Debate series brought experts from inside and outside the government to try and convince the audience that it is either time to declare the open-ended war against "terrorism" over, or that doing so would cripple the US government’s ability to protect its citizens.