1.0 link 56605 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/talal-asad/thinking-about-just-war_b_56605.html Since September 11, many people have remarked on the oddity of the phrase "the war on terror" that quickly dominated public discourse: War, they pointed out, is a formal relation of hostilities between sovereign states and not between a state and an abstraction indicating a diffuse international network of militants. The Bush regime was mocked for making an absurd -- and dangerous -- confusion. The assumption of most of these critics, however, is that because there is a legal...

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