Bangladesh, July 24 -- One wonders if the Donald J Trump administration will ever really fight radical Islamist terror! Observers say Islamist terror poses an existential threat to the entire civilized world today. The United States is supposed to lead the entire “free” world and devise an appropriate mechanism to annihilate the evil and protect its democratic values. However, the pattern of Washington on this front has been highly disappointing.

In the late 1960s, Washington ignored the movements such as Al Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine which resorted to violence against the civilians to accomplish their political goals. In the late seventies, the Jimmy Carter presidency in Washington looked the...