The 'war on terror': Good cause, wrong concept

Survival

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 31-50

  Andréani, Gilles ^a,b  

^a French Foreign Ministry   (France)

^b ERMES   (France)

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EID: 17444426614     PISSN: 00396338     EISSN: 14682699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00396330412331342446     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. 'Our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated'. President Bush's address to a joint session of Congress, 20 September 2001 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/ 09/20010920-8.html
2. UNSCR 1368, adopted 12 September 2001.
3. NATO Council declaration, NATO press release 2001/124, 12 September 2001.
4. Michael Howard, 'What's in a name? How to fight terrorism', Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002.
5. The exception was Vietnam, which the American right is fighting hard, however, to reinsert into the seamless web of just causes that they identify with America's war experience. The resurrection of Vietnam to become a central theme in the 2004 US presidential campaign may be more than coincidence.
6. At the end of the campaign in Tunisia, Eisenhower disapproved of British General Auchinleck's handshake with the German commander, General von Arnim.
7. National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, February 2003, The White House, p. 17
8. 9/11 Commission Report, p. 366
9. 'The terrorists understand that Iraq is the central front in the war on terror. They're testing our will. And, day by day, they are learning, our will is firm, their cause will fail. We will stay on the offensive. Whatever it takes, we will seek and find and destroy the terrorists, so that we do not have to face them in our own country. (Applause).' President Bush's remarks at Fort Campbell, 18 March 2004 www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/03/20040318-3.html
10. Speech by Paul Wolfowitz, 'Iraq, what does disarmament look like?', Council on Foreign Relations, 23 January 2003.
11. US Congress, Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq, 2 October 2002.
12. Martin van Creveld, The Transformation of War (New York: Free Press, 1991).
13. 'Bush backtracks on terrorism remark', Washington Post, 31 August 2004.
14. Ibid.