Let him sue on behalf of all of us, who have to live under the constraints of an increasingly militarized society, in which hidden enemies are supposedly hiding in garbage cans and depositing bombs in mailboxes. That is the meaning and the root cause of terrorism. Intervention by the West in affairs best left to the locals leads, invariably, to a reaction, often violent, and inflicted on innocent civilians. As we intervene in the civilizational conflicts of the Middle East, the Balkans, and Central Asia, we are finding that religious and ethnic factions from other cultures do not necessarily play by the Rules of the Marquis of Queensbury. If this is the price we must pay for the dubious privilege of being the world's policeman, then one wonders how long the American people will want to play the game of Empire.
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