Jim Henley takes a closer look at Mitt Romney’s PowerPoint of Terror and the results aren’t very pretty. It turns out, for example, that Switzerland isn’t under assault by terror groups looking to restore the Caliphate and “defeat the Modernity.”

Strikingly, the big “sweep” against al-Qaeda failed for the exact same reasons that this technique always fails, both in previous iterations in Iraq, and also in other counterinsurgency situations around the world and throughout history.