Voices - Where Do We Go From Here?
"[T]he United
States should...formulate a military solution to what is, in larger terms,
a military rather than a crimino- logical problem."
- Caleb Carr, 1986 <http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/boulevard/2739/carr.html>
"Fighting terrorism
requires a police action and not an army action."
- Thomas L. Friedman, 2001 http://freshair.npr.org/dayFA.cfm?display=day&todayDate=09%2F19%2F2001
If the symbolic
had not been [primary], the pilots of the hijacked planes would have aimed
straight for a nuclear power plant, with which they could have wreaked
still more horror... During World War Two, the intellectual challenge
went out to physicists and chemists, mathematicians and engineers to solve
technical problems of enormous complexity. If there really is to be something
like a war on terrorism, then the new challenge seems to be addressed
to anthropologists and historians, sociologists and theologians, students
of the symbolic rather than the technical.
- Lorraine Daston <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n19/mult2319.htm#daston>
