The State Is In Danger Of Falling

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.

Global Terrorism Is Extreme Both In Its Lack Of Realistic Goals And In Its Cynical Exploitation Of The Vulnerability Of Complex Systems.

I Cannot Imagine A Context That Would Some Day, In Some Manner, Make The Monstrous Crime Of September 11 An Understandable Or Comprehensible Political Act

Partisans Fight On Familiar Territory With Professed Political Objectives To Conquer Power. This Is What Distinguishes Them From Terrorists

The Task Of Universal Pragmatics Is To Identify And Reconstruct Universal Conditions Of Possible Mutual Understanding.