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...course, nothing should compel us to excuse acts of terror. But insofar as we understand that terror’s perpetrators have been both “terrorists” and “non-terrorists,” we must commit to a politics free of this all-too-artificial antagonism. A humanistic and inclusive politics is indeed possible, and only its implementation can deliver a terror-free world...
...move past this pernicious framing of the problem of terror, we must begin by recognizing the arbitrariness of the classification itself. Those who have been designated “terrorists” by the powers-that-be, while sometimes guilty of heinous crimes against humanity, have hardly had a monopoly on terror. One only needs to revisit the historical record, where—as Frantz Fanon once wrote about European imperialism—we find an “avalanche of murders” carried out by those who “never stopped talking...
...Western governments, who have long seen Musharraf as an important ally in the war on terror, a familiar face at Pakistan's helm is preferable. But few Pakistanis have confidence that Musharraf - either as military leader or civilian President - can solve a problem that escalated under his watch. Bhutto, loathed by the religious parties for her liberal policies and equally abhorred by the military, doesn't offer much more hope, despite her campaign pledges. "Islamic militancy is spreading across Pakistan," says Cheema. "The militants are becoming more assertive even in settled areas, and the government is weak. It doesn...
...undergraduate lecture course History 1422, “The World of the French Revolution,” which covers the entire Revolution from its origins to Napoleon’s coup d’etat. The class explores the emergence of political feminism, alternative market economies, and political terror, among other topics...
...Oval Office where, of course, there was all that rhetoric about how we were going to smoke them out of their holes and Bush was recalling old Dead or Alive posters from old movies. But so many of our pundits and politicians were talking about the war on terror as going back to our days of fighting the Indians on the Great Plains. The Cabinet was dining on what they billed as a Wild Western menu of buffalo meat. The press was full of trend stories about how this was going to bring back "John Wayne masculinity." The TV programmers...