Philadelphia Inquirer: Declaring War on Terrorism Wrongly Suggests An End to Fight
The fallacy in declaring a “war on terror,” as President George W. Bush did after the 9/11 attacks, is that it suggests an eventual end to the fight.
The fallacy in declaring a “war on terror,” as President George W. Bush did after the 9/11 attacks, is that it suggests an eventual end to the fight.
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The first rule about homegrown terrorist plots: don’t talk about homegrown terrorist plots. Or so goes the code of a North Carolina prisoner recently sentenced on terrorism charges; federal court documents now allege the man plotted to kill witnesses that testified against him, including by decapitation, reports the Associated Press. An…