[lit-ideas] Re: Europe's September 11 ?
- From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:39:14 -0500
Scribe1865@xxxxxxx writes:
: In a message dated 3/17/2004 3:31:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
: mccreery@xxxxxxx writes:
:
: > One wonder's how P. Enn's reasoning could be universalized:
:
: Can it be universalized by giving al-Qaeda the same status in terms as a
: country?
:
: As a transnational non-governmental entity existing largely to murder in the
: name of a fantasy ideology, al-Qaeda falls outside the class of objects Mike
: should be using for his universalizing argument. Al-Qaeda have no capital cit
: y
: like Hanoi, no populace, no diplomatic arm -- and no coherent voice.
:
: (In the last case, I remember press announcements a year ago -- one from
: "Osama" whose tone urged sympathy for their cause ["poor us, we're just
: misunderstood"], and another a week later from a "spokesman" warning American
: s that
: their "Christmas present" was on the way [evil voice: bwah-ha-hah!] -- both o
: f
: which were authenticated.)
:
: Better to compare al-Qaeda to international pirates. One extirpates piracy,
: and does not accord it the status of a coherent entity, a cause, diplomacy, o
: r
: any comparison to a polis.
:
: Arrr, me bucko!
Then surely the first step to a solution is to give al Qaeda a
country of their own.
I would suggest giving them Saudi Arabia.
--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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