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...While college students have traditionally been more trusting in diplomacy than the nation as a whole, in the wake of September 11th, the gap had shrunk. According to the IOP and an ABC news poll, 76 percent of college students supported military action against nations that assist or sponsor terrorism??close to the 87 percent of the general population that felt the same...
...We’re taught at Harvard how to be analytical and logical,” she said. “But if we’re going to confront the problems of the world—like terrorism??we need to realize it’s not logical. We forget about the emotional...
...perpetrators of terrorism??not just in Afghanistan, but also across the globe—are being captured by U.S. forces, it is imperative that we have set standards by which we can try and judge them. Ideally, international courts can provide the oversight and legitimacy that state-based judicial action cannot. For the international legal system to falter now, the chasm between the U.S. and the rest of the world would grow to even larger proportions...
When a member of the audience questioned whether poverty leads to terrorism??saying that most of the Sep. 11 hijackers were not poor—Rubin broadened his thesis to say feelings of “alienation, resentment, and hopelessness” around the world pose the biggest threat to America...
...larger context in which Palestinian terrorism takes place—the context obscured by America’s single-minded focus on terrorism??is Israel’s 34-year military occupation of a civilian population. Since Israel’s conquest of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, these territories have been under military occupation, governed by the Fourth Geneva Convention. That remains the legal status of these territories to this day. In spite of the transfer of partial control to the Palestinian Authority in the framework of the Oslo Accords, Israel remains...