The president is right: Countering violent extremism or “CVE” in the United States does need improvement. However, focusing it exclusively on Islamic extremism, as he reportedly plans to do, does not constitute one. Rather, the focus should be on learning from past CVE mistakes and successes to develop better-informed policies and programs that reduce rather than exacerbate the threat. Although the Obama administration deserves a lot of credit for elevating CVE and devoting more attention to identifying early signs of radicalization and intervening before it leads to violence—as a policy priority—its domestic CVE record was mixed…..