[lbo-talk] The Matrix of Terror

[Dennis Perrin]

> The presumption is, of course, that the State's claim to a monopoly on
violence is legitimate and is
> not itself a manifestation of nihilism, as Wolfowitz, Rummy et al
demonstrate all too well.
>
> Ian

There's that. But Rothstein's bit about the "ethical limits of these
all-too-familiar [pro-terrorist] convictions" is not clear. Is he talking
about a general terrorist type that sees civilian life as fodder for the
Greater Good? If so, then that surely indicts the state far more than the
cell, though the cell can and does subscribe to this too. But there are
different cells, different goals. Is Rothstein saying that they are all
alike, both in the real world and in fiction?

DP