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To: boris_a who wrote (127376)	3/26/2004 3:46:39 AM
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What's the formal framework? Where are the boundaries? Lest we find a way to a N(ew)UN it will be as described in Hobbes' Leviathan (1651): <<Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre; and such a warre, as is of every man, against every man. For WARRE, consisteth not in Battell onely, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to contend by Battell is sufficiently known: and therefore the notion of Time, is to be considered in the nature of Warre; as it is in the nature of Weather. For as the nature of Foule weather, lyeth not in a showre or two of rain; but in an inclination thereto of many dayes together: So the nature of War, consisteth not in actuall fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary.>> gutenberg.net There's a longer discussion of the challenge of democratic institutions by terrorism in the following article (unfortunately in German): Unsere Freiheit heißt Sicherheit Die im Gefolge des Terrorismus wieder aufgekommene Debatte um einen Bundeswehreinsatz im Inneren ist Symptom eines schleichenden Systemwechsels Von Klaus Naumann Frankfurter Rundschau March 25, 2004 fr-aktuell.de