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Is this a Global War or a Regional War on Terror

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A logic of infinite war

From September 11, the world settles in a terrible spiral where war and terrorism feed reciprocally. We are opposite two specific forms of violence whose confrontation, being given the current capacities of destruction, can lead only to one exponential growth of violence and the mutual destruction. It results a closed binary system from it “or you are with me, or you are against me”. Vis-a-vis this bipolar system of violence, the movements of dispute, the movements of release are in front of a strategic challenge. If they do not succeed in breaking this infernal couple, there is hardly hope for the people to build another world. In this dominant logic, the war is not any more the continuation of the policy by other means, it replaces the policy. To find its effectiveness, the policy must be other thing that the war and that terrorism and must be practical of mobilization not armed with the company. At the same time, this strategic choice must show its possibilities and its higher effectiveness under concrete conditions given, as average to blame oppression and to advance towards the political resolution of the conflicts. Such was the choice of the first Intifada with its first undeniable assets