From an essay by Rudy Giuliani in Foreign Affairs, entitled, Toward a Realistic Peace: “The next U.S. president will face three key foreign policy challenges: setting a course for victory in the terrorists’ war on global order, strengthening the international system the terrorists seek to destroy, and extending the system’s benefits. With a stronger defense, [...]
Tag Archives: terrorism
Report says terror attacks up sharply
May 1, 2007 – 01:37 pm
From Report says terror attacks up sharply: “Terrorist attacks worldwide shot up more than 25 percent last year, killing 40 percent more people than in 2005, particularly in Iraq, where extremists used chemical weapons and suicide bombers to target crowds, the State Department said Monday.” How’s that War on Terror thing going?
The Freedom Tower
March 12, 2007 – 11:13 am
From The Freedom Tower, by Vaclav Hevel, the former president of the Czech Republic: “And here’s what I fear: that for reasons of prestige they will build something even higher on the same spot [as the Twin Towers], something that will spoil New York even more, that they will enter into some kind of absurd [...]
Liberating the Virtual World
February 27, 2007 – 12:19 pm
Justin found this in Slate Magazine : “Terrorism has erupted in a huge, online fantasy world. Membership in Second Life has soared from 100,000 to 2 million in a year. Freeloaders and corporations selling real stuff are coming in; imaginary elves are leaving. The company that runs the world says it needs corporate money to [...]
The Myth of the Omnipresent Enemy
January 29, 2007 – 03:28 pm
From Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?: The Myth of the Omnipresent Enemy: “Despite all the ominous warnings of wily terrorists and imminent attacks, there has been neither a successful strike nor a close call in the United States since 9/11. The reasonable — but rarely heard — explanation is that there are no terrorists [...]
Yahoo! Answers
January 16, 2007 – 03:57 pm
The President of India (really, seriously, no shit!) has asked a question over on Yahoo! Answers. He wants to know, “What should we do to free our planet from terrorism?” I like this guy’s style.
To breathe is not to struggle
May 19, 2005 – 05:51 pm
The natural tendency of theory — of what unites philosophy and science in the epistémè — will push rather toward filling in the breach than forcing the closure.— p. 92
[A] man calls himself [a] man only by drawing limits excluding his other from the play…— p. 244
It appears…that [a] man…is cultivated [by his culture]: he [...]
