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Whether terrorism is wrong is a question that is often answered badly or at least inadequately, according to Walzer, who defines terrorism as the random killing of innocent people, in the hope of creating pervasive fear.
Sep 23, 2019 · Whether terrorism is wrong is a question that is often answered badly or at least inadequately, according to Walzer, who defines terrorism as the random killing of innocent people, in the hope of creating pervasive fear.
In this context, Michael Walzer's discussion of the ethics of war, noncombatant immunity, and terrorism—though written a quarter century ago—remains important.
What can go wrong in the ‘war’ against terrorism, and is just war theory equally helpful in thinking about this ‘war’–where the scare quotes are always necessary? Terrorism is the random killing of innocent people, in the hope of creating pervasive fear.
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- Michael Walzer
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This article is about the war on terror as an actual war and as police work — and then as something in between these two. The in-between space, where special forces operate, is critically important.
- Michael Walzer
- 2007
Terrorisme.net – In your article “9/11: five questions about terrorism” (2002), you define terrorism as the “deliberate killing of innocent people, at random, in order to spread fear through a whole population and force the hand of its political leaders”.
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