One Never Really Knows Who One's Enemy

Some Of Those Drawn Into The Holy War Had Been Secular Nationalists Only A Few Years Before. If One Looks At The Biographies Of These People, Remarkable Continuities Are Revealed.

The Only Knowledge That Can Truly Orient Action Is Knowledge That Frees Itself From Mere Human Interests And Is Based In Ideas - In Other Words Knowledge That Has Taken A Theoretical Attitude.

Subjects Who Reciprocally Recognize Each Other As Such, Must Consider Each Other As Identical, Insofar As They Both Take Up The Position Of Subject; They Must At All Times Subsume Themselves And The Other Under The Same Category. At The Same Time, The Relation Of Reciprocity Of Recognition Demands The Non-identity Of One And The Other, Both Must Also Maintain Their Absolute Difference, For To Be A Subject Implies The Claim Of Individuation.

Norms Appearing In The Form Of Law Entitle Actors To Exercise Their Rights Or Liberties. However, One Cannot Determine Which Of These Laws Are Legitimate Simply By Looking At The Form Of Individual Rights. Only By Bringing In The Discourse Principle Can One Show That Each Person Is Owed A Right To The Greatest Possible Measure Of Equal Liberties That Are Mutually Compatible.

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