Exam 19: Political Violence: War, Terrorism, and Torture

Suppose that terrorism is defined broadly as the deliberate use of violence against noncombatants for political or ideological purposes. In this case the Allied bombings of Dresden and other German cities in World War II and the atomic obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would be considered

According to the text, ________ is violence against noncombatants for political, religious, or ideological ends.

________ is the view that moral standards are not applicable to war and that war must be judged only on how well it serves state interests.

One of the ways that people have tried to avoid concluding that the Allied forces' bombing of cities in World War II was terrorism is to limit terrorism only to ________; that is, to individuals or groups that are not sovereign states.

Suppose the Iraq War, which began in 2003 when the United States and its allies attacked Iraq, started because President George W. Bush and his advisors feared that Saddam Hussein might be dangerous. And suppose at that time there was no evidence that Iraq was an immediate and imminent threat-that is, there was no evidence that Iraq had nearly completed plans to attack the United States with weapons of mass destruction. If these were the facts, most just war theorists would probably have judged the attack by the United States to be