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Does “Infinite Justice” lead to enduring War?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Olaf Dilling

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In one of his speeches the President of the United States of America took the responsibility to free the world from all globally operating terrorist groups. Honestly, is a realistic end to such a task foreseeable? Or does the former Operation „Infinite Justice”, which was recently renamed „Enduring Freedom” lead to infinite or enduring war?

References

(1) http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/t09252001 t0925sd.html — Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, DoD News Briefing, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2001 – 12:18 p.m. EDT.Google Scholar

(2) http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/t09202001 t920ruma.html — Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, DoD News Briefing, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2001 – 12:01 p.m. EDT.Google Scholar

(3) In that context the discussion has to be seen, which followed a statement of the German Federal Secretary of the Interior Otto Schily about the use of the Deutsche Bundeswehr (German Federal Armed Forces) also for inner security, see: http://www.zeit.de/2001/39/Politik/200139_schily.html.Google Scholar

(4) For a corresponding concept of justice see: Derrida, Jacques, Force de loi. Le fondement mystique de l'authorité in Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, 11 Cardozo L. Rev, July/August 1990, numbers 5–6, New York, esp. the chapter about the first aporie.Google Scholar

(5) The rumours, that the footage were 10 years old, thus fake in the very strict sense of the word (see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid 1561000/1561199.stm.) had at least some truth in it. In making the receiver insecure about what he had seen, they showed the deceptiveness of pictures torn out of context and may initialize reflection about the influence of the observer on the observed.Google Scholar

(6) Girard, René, La violence et le sacré, Paris 1972.Google Scholar

(7) See: http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/l/la hire/peace_ju.jpg, http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/g/p-giaquinto1.htm.Google Scholar

(8) http://www.sueddeutsche.de/aktuell/sz/oldarticle81516.php Google Scholar