Vindicating law through warfare -- a bridge too far :: Power Line

Phillip Bobbitt is the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence and the Director of the Center for National Security at Columbia University. He has a long history of high-level government service.

Bobbitt is the author of Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century, a provocative attempt to re-conceptualize the war on terror. Bobbitt argues that many of the widely-held assumptions about this war are dubious at best. Among them are:

The view that because terrorism will always be with us, there can be no victory in a war against terror;
The view that the root causes of terrorism lie in conditions of poverty, economic exploitation, neglect of health and education, and religious indoctrination that must be reversed before a war against terrorism can be won;

The view that terrorism will not flourish in democracies;

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