De-contextualising Chechnya

Published September 8, 2004

What would we do without Richard Perle, everybody's favourite neo-conservative? It was he who came up some years ago with the notion that we must "de-contextualise terrorism:" that is, we must stop trying to understand the reasons that some groups turn to terrorism, and simply condemn and kill them. No grievance, no injury, no cause is great enough to justify the use of terrorism.

This would be an...