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| Fighting Terrorism; The Developed World's Approach and Global Order |
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As Congress debates, they must be guided by the fact that we need to learn to control the use of force to the extent that it undermines, rather than supports, essential democratic values in the fight against terrorism. Almost everywhere, governments have taken September 11th as an opportunity to restrict their citizens’ freedom. Military missions have been ordered by Mr. Bush to try suspected terrorists. A second concern raised by The Cato Institute in America is that the US administration is “supporting measures antithetical to freedom, such as secretive subpoenas, secretive arrests, secretive trials and secretive deportations.” The third area of concern is the sinister nature of some of the wider measures now being taken in the war on terror. Despite denials of racial profiling Arabs have come under close scrutiny over the past year. There must not be the slightest attempt to restrict civil liberties, the core of democratic values in the name of an effective campaign against terror.
A school of thought suggests that in addition to the need to uphold democratic values, we must encourage the development of defensive strategies in foreign policy, such as that of a civilian–based defense system.
Another seeks the kinds of concrete actions from antagonists that can work to minimize their mutual hostility and work to build more harmonious relationships
Still another and more important there should be the widest possible international sharing of any decision to use force in an interventionary way, recognizing that what is possible in one context may not be so everywhere.
Franklin Cudjoe
Programme Officer/ Research Assistant
Institute of Economic Affairs,
Ghana
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