He said that while terrorism must always be condemned, it was wrong to assume its perpetrators were devoid of political rationality. “It is possible to use unspeakably wicked means to pursue an aim that is shared by those who would not dream of acting in the same way, an aim that is intelligible or desirable.”
He said that in ignoring this, in its criticism of al-Qa’eda, America “loses the power of self-criticism and becomes trapped in a self-referential morality.”
Moral?
Rationality?
How politically and/or personally rational can a person be who boards an airplane and flies it into a building?
What if a person straps a bomb to their body and goes into a public place to detonate it?
How moral can a person be who murders?
This type of thinking from the Archbishop would have made Neville Chamberlain very proud.
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