[news] Intellectuals and the "War on Terror"

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

The 'war on terror' has an intellectual arm, and many of the most significant contributors are 'liberals'...Those who have attempted to understand causes have been portrayed as themselves a cause of 9/11. A prime example is the work of **Alan Dershowitz**, a Harvard law professor with a reputation for liberal stances on civil liberties. For Dershowitz, attempting to understand and eliminate the root causes of terrorism was "exactly the wrong approach"...For Dershowitz, the sensible response to terrorism is to send out this message: "we will hunt you down and destroy your capacity to engage in terrorism." What is most troubling here is the wilful blindness to root causes, combined with the old fantasy that terrorists are finite and can be physically hunted down and destroyed. 

  


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