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The Anti-Terror Virtues
Tech Central Station ^ | April 30, 2004 | Kenneth Silber

Posted on 04/29/2004 9:22:36 PM PDT by quidnunc

The War on Terror has been presented, rightly, as proceeding on many fronts. It has been fought on the battlefield in Afghanistan and Iraq. It has been sustained in smaller-scale military actions in other countries, including Pakistan, Yemen, and the Philippines. It includes police investigations, financial crackdowns, diplomatic pressure, economic development, and information transmission. It is a clash of ideas as well as of weapons.

It is also a war that depends crucially on the American people overall. The main burdens of the war have fallen disproportionately on a relative few — military men and women and their families, most saliently, but also intelligence agents, diplomats, contractors and others. Yet a chief lesson of September 11, 2001 was that war can occur in unexpected places, fought by unprecedented methods. We are all potentially on the front lines. Moreover, the sustainability of government policies, the morale of our troops, and the resilience of our economy and society against terrorism all require active public support and participation.

The War on Terror is thus a matter not just of policy and strategy but of character. Achieving victory in this war — a world in which al Qaeda and other international terrorist groups no longer constitute a substantial threat to the United States — will require that the American people display and cultivate certain virtues. Three moral qualities stand out as of particular importance in this regard. These anti-terror virtues are:

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TOPICS: Extended News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: counterterrorism

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