President Obama acknowledged -- for first time -- human toll of drone attacks . The purported message was handwritten on the interior wall of the boat where he hid from authorities , bleeding from gunshot wounds . Fawaz Gerges : ' ` ` war on terror '' and drone attacks fuel home - grown radicalization . Recent attackers unified not by ideology , but core grievances , real or imagined - Gerges . Deescalating ` ` war on terror , he says , will remove sources of disillusionment for Muslim teens .
President Obama acknowledged -- for first time -- human toll of drone attacks . Fawaz Gerges : ' ` ` war on terror '' and drone attacks fuel home - grown radicalization . Recent attackers unified not by ideology , but core grievances , real or imagined - Gerges . Deescalating ` ` war on terror , he says , will remove sources of disillusionment for Muslim teens .