Sunday, July 10, 2005

Beyond the politics of fear - response to london bombings /ekklesia, 9 Jul 2005

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/article_05079london.shtml
"Insurgents believe that politics grows out of the barrel of a gun. By contrast, practical politicians should be clear that terror cannot be defeated by military means. Its resolution can only be moral and political. As even US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld has admitted, we lack the metrics to know whether a 'war on terror' is being won or lost. "