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The president could not have been more justified when he condemned “the evil scourge of terrorism.” I am quoting Ronald Reagan, who came into office in 1981 declaring that a focus of his foreign policy would be state-directed international terrorism, “the plague of the modern age” and “a return to barbarism in our time,” to sample some of the rhetoric of his administration.
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Chomsky, N. (2011). The Evil Scourge of Terrorism: Reality, Construction, Remedy. In: Webel, C.P., Arnaldi, J.A. (eds) The Ethics and Efficacy of the Global War on Terrorism. Twenty-First Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137001931_3
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