I Consider Bush's Decision To Call For

I Consider Bush's Decision To Call For A War Against Terrorism A Serious Mistake. He Is Elevating These Criminals To The Status Of War Enemies, And One Cannot Lead A War Against A Network If The Term War Is To Retain Any Definite Meaning.

The Misery In War-torn Afghanistan Is Reminiscent Of Images From The Thirty Years' War.

A Threatened Nation Can React To Uncertain Dangers Solely Through Administrative Channels, To The Truly Embarrassing Situation Of Perhaps Overreacting

The Usage Of The Words "public" And "public Sphere" Betrays A Multiplicity Of Concurrent Meanings. Their Origins Go Back To Various Historical Phases And, When Applied Synchronically To The Conditions Of A Bourgeois Society That Is Industrially Advanced And Constituted As A Social-welfare State, They Fuse Into A Clouded Amalgam. Yet The Very Conditions That Make The Inherited Language Seem Inappropriate Appear To Require These Words, However Confused Their Employment.

Osama Bin Laden, The Person, More Likely Serves The Function Of A Stand-in. Compare The New Terrorists With Partisans Or Conventional Terrorists In Israel. These People Often Fight In A Decentralized Manner In Small, Autonomous Units, Too.