Demystifying terrorism: 2001.(15 YEARS OF LIBERAL INTELLIGENCE)
American Prospect, The, June, 2005 by Walzer, Michael
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IN OCTOBER 2001, I WROTE A PIECE for the Prospect [see "Excusing Terror] in which I criticized "the politics of ideological apology"--the excuses that some on the left were making for terrorism. No one was justifying terrorism, but we were often asked to "understand" it. I argued that terrorism as a political strategy had to be condemned and opposed without regard to the causes that the terrorists claimed to serve. In fact, terrorism served no decent cause.
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Is anybody still excusing terrorism? The answer is yes: Secret sympathy, even fascination, with ...
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