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Appropriate strategy Appropriate strategy needs to be conceived in the light of the motive for the attack. Who understands -- or is seeking to understand -- what the motive was and how is it being rendered comprehensible to the citizens calling for reprisals? What are the coalition's precise war aims -- so long after it has started? (Editorial,  Independent , 11 November 2001) The failure of efforts to intimidate the Taliban, forced the coalition to use the USA's traditional blunderbuss strategy of carpet-bombing. Will the strategy actually lead to the capture Osama bin Laden and the dissolution of the Taliban? Is there any evidence that al-Qa'ida is being broken up -- or that its capacity to mount a new attack has been diminished by the strategy? Or has bin Laden's cause been placed in a better stratgegic position by this process -- even if he is captured? (Editorial,  Independent , 11 November 2001) What will be the wider reverberations of the war?Where will it a...

Belief-centered exclusivity Efforts are being made to frame the horrendous attacks as attacks on "freedom" and "democracy" within civilization as a whole. To what extent does this constitute an exclusive appropriation of the values of freedom and democracy by a "western civilization" that is perceived by the attackers as opposing other peoples and cultures in their legitimate aspirations to "freedom" and "democracy" as they understand and prioritize them? The Mayor of New York, in addressing the UN General Assembly argued (1 October 2001): "This is not a time for further study or vague directives. The United Nations must draw a line. The era of moral relativism between those who practice and condone terrorism and those who stand up against it must end...We are right and they are wrong. It is as simple as that". Does this clarity focus on every area of moral ambiguity or only on "terrorism"? After so many year...

Beyond sympathy for the immediate victims and bereaved, this report presents over 1417 challenging questions, notably from a variety of electronic and other media sources. The intention is to facilitate collective learning on the occasion of the abhorrent and horrendous attacks on 11th September 2001 -- and their aftermath. As new questions are added new categories may be used. No attempt has yet been made to rate the questions for insightfulness or relative merit. Because of its size, the document has now been split into a number of parts. Nature of the Challenge of Terrorism 911+ Questions in Seeking UnCommon Ground (Part 1) Challenges to civilization Is the real challenge for civilization one of exacting punitive measures on the perpetrators of a crime or is it one of recognizing and correcting the patterns of our individual and collective behaviour that engendered that crime? How can the horror of the millions of innocent people who die prematurely around the world...

Social engineering Guidelines for Engaging in Armageddon Now theology based social engineering for profit and targeted control. There is now extensive reference to evil in the media, in political declarations, in commentary on the web, and even in academic literature. Most of these references are very clear on what is evil or who is evil. Some of the commentary endeavours to raise questions about how evil is framed. This tends to be matched by other references which consider that raising such subtleties is part of the problem and effectively just another manifestation of evil. In such circumstances it is appropriate to recognize that the prophesied battle of  Armageddon  is not some time in the future. That ultimate battle between good and evil is now. This is a time clearly characterized by the Biblical reference:  And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against [their] parents, and cause them to b...