I’m reading a book at the moment (The End of Faith by Sam Harris) which is about religion and terrorism. It raises a very interesting point in the first chapter:
On September 11th, Osama bin Laden committed an act of terrorism and killed many people. As a result a war on terrorism was declared.
If Osama bin Laden had been the leader of a state and had attacked the World Trade Center with missiles, it would have been an act of war. Would a war on “war” have been declared? I think not…
