The inescapable reality of blowback by Anthony Gregory "Proponents of a U.S. foreign policy status quo enjoy looking at all anti-American terror attacks as acts of war and all assaults on U.S. soldiers as terrorism. It conveniently allows for the best of both worlds: extreme measures justified by the exigencies of war and the portrayal of the enemy as lawless, rather than as acting according to the logic of war, just from the other side. War indeed can constitute terrorism, and vice versa. We should attempt to maintain moral consistency and not sink into relativism in a patriotically correct attempt to view all U.S. actions as defensible and the actions of U.S. enemies as dastardly. But if this is too much to ask, Hasan’s description of his motives should at least establish the reality of blowback -- the undeniable fact that U.S. actions abroad, whatever ethical appraisal they deserve, incite violence on American soil seen by its perpetrators as directly responsive to U.S. policy."Source: Independent Institute tinyurl/lwo34b9
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 09:00:42 +0000
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