Culture of Terrorism

sponsored farm cooperatives” has merit, because “In a Marxist society geared up for war, there are no clear lines separating officials, soldiers and civilians”—a justification that could be offered with ease by Abu Nidal.

New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, a liberal dove by the standards of American discourse, writes that the State Department defense of “bloody contra attacks on government-

tactical, and that in a terrorist cultural climate, nothing counts except the success of violence.

In adopting this public stance, they register their understanding that the debate within elite circles is largely tac