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In Defense of 'Just War' Thinking
Falk, Richard | December 24, 2001 issue

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The article focuses on the military component of the response to September 11, 2001 attacks in the U.S. The first stable element in this assessment has been the underlying conviction that the attacks were of a character as to make recourse to war, rather than an exclusive reliance on law enforcement, politically inevitable and morally/legally justifiable. The second stable element has been my view that unless this necessary military element is kept subordinate to the nonmilitary dimensions of response, the war against global terror will be lost in the end.

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TERRORISM -- United States; WAR; SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; INTERNATIONAL relations; LAW enforcement; MILITARY art & science; UNITED States
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