Exam 10: Ethics and the War on Terrorism

Which of the following are associated with terrorism?

As part of the war on terror,the U.S.government has detained individuals at ______,on the Island of Cuba,and denied them many of the usual rights granted to Criminal suspects.

Another serious ethical issue is whether the U.S.should allow ______ of alleged enemy combatants detained at Guantanamo Bay.

Famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz has suggested that torture might be applied and regulated through ______.

Nonabsolutist ______ would support torture in what are deemed to be "catastrophic" situations.

The primary federal statute authorizing the current war on terrorism is the ______ Act.

______ is seen by many ethicists as a key issue,and many advocate no restrictions on rights they believe to be basic and inviolable such as the prohibition against torture.

Wilkinson's (2001)"hard-line approach" model includes all of the following elements except ______.

What act has been described as having been "passed in response to a largely undefined threat from a poorly understood source"?

Blum and Heymann (2010)suggest that a new paradigm that is neither warfare nor is ______ required because international terrorism does not easily fit within either Alternative paradigm.

The only legal model of torture that exists is in use in Columbia.

Following 9/11,the Congress passed the ______ Act which gave government new powers and arguably threatened constitutional rights.

The ticking bomb argument is used to justify torture during interrogation of dangerous terrorists.

______ is problematic to define and has a number of official and legal definitions.

The "ticking bomb" argument attempts to justify ______.

One of the goals of al-Qaeda is to create an ______ composed of all Muslims everywhere.

Italy had a problem with which terrorist group during the 1970s?

Employing the ______ paradigm as a counterterrorist strategy enabled administration lawyers to differentiate attacks targeting terrorists from banned Assassinations and to rationalize such targeting as lawful operations against enemy Combatants.

Wilkinson (2001)points to several risks of adopting a war-like approach.Which of the following are risks,according to Wilkinson?

The deployment of drones increased ______ between 2008 and 2011.