Jurgen Habermas Quotes
I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.
Habermas, Jürgen. "Fundamentalism and Terror." Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, by Giovanna Borradori, U of Chicago P, 2003, p. 34.
The German Green party was traditionally a left wing party, very concerned with civil rights and generally opposed to repressive use of police and military. However, faced with terrorism, the party would consider what under circumstances other than terror would have been unthinkable.
The AUMF was passed 3 days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere.