Jurgen Habermas

(8 votes)   One never really knows who one's enemy is.

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(5 votes)   A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting.

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(4 votes)   Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.

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(4 votes)   The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

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(13 votes)   If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

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(11 votes)   In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.

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(10 votes)   The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

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(8 votes)   The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

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(7 votes)   The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

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(6 votes)   Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

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(6 votes)   The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

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(6 votes)   Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism.

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(6 votes)   What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

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(5 votes)   After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

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(5 votes)   From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

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