The
September 11 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and
damaged the Pentagon have been nearly universally condemned
as barbarous acts. About the horror, there can be no doubt.
Yet even as they watched the Towers fall, and in the pivotal
days that followed, leaders disagreed about how, exactly, to
define what they were seeing. Was it war? Terrorism? A crime
against humanity? An unprecedented combination of atrocities?
Definitions matter, for they determine what sort of response
is permissible and what body of international law applies.DEMI
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