It’s not that poverty doesn’t move them, but more correctly it is an interpretation of poverty that radicalizes (and is itself radical). When I started my studies at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies, I made the mistake of joking with a German colleague. We were discussing “terrorism” as a theoretical [...]
Posts Tagged ‘violence’
Tit for Tat
January 12th, 2009
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OK. Punching someone just because they hit you is not good. This isn’t just me speaking as a (more or less) pacifist. Preemption is an even more dangerous game, as we have found with our Mesopotamian excursion. News this past week makes me think that we earthlings still haven’t figured these things out. In the [...]
Mumbai, Terror, and Response
November 26th, 2008
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I’ve been following the mess in Mumbai for the past few hours. As usual, Hashtags represents the best and most live way to keep up-to-date: http://hashtags.org/tag/mumbai. Even though it’s getting a lot of media play, I think it’s important to remember the rather peculiar “ordinariness” of the day’s events. We gasped in America when the [...]
