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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

— Ulrich Beck

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

— Jurgen Habermas

On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.

— Otto Schily

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

— Diane Sawyer

Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.

— Mac Thornberry

Terrorism tramples upon any rights and freedoms and generates fear and hatred; it is an obstacle to efforts at improving our world.

— Dmitry Medvedev

I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

— Yoshihiko Noda

To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible.

— Kurt Eichenwald

Before 9/11, absolutely, there were concerns about terrorism; but the world fundamentally changed.

— Richard Fadden

✗Opposing Perspectives

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

— Gijs de Vries

Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before.

— Alberto Fujimori