1. Based on a careful viewing of The Weather Underground, explain what is meant by the phrase ‘bringing the war home’, and very briefly pinpoint what it can it tell us about what motivates terrorism as political action.
2. In Phillip Ruddock’s ‘Rule of Law and National Security’ and in Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’, both people talk about the rightful violent action they’re advocating in relation to law, morality, and the authority of the written word. By reading each holistically and comparing them carefully and critically, offer one important thing you can observe about how terrorism was understood and practiced as war, with reference to law, by these key figures from the first decade of the Global War on Terror?
3. Based on a careful viewing of Dirty Wars, identify one of the crimes that may have been committed by US authorities as part of the Global War on Terror. With reference to course material in 1) war and 2) crime, identify why Scahill accords so much importance to Anwar Al-Awlaki, and critically evaluate his fate and significance as crime.
4. Based on a careful and complete reading of ‘The Terrorism Delusion: America’s Overwrought Response to September 11’, identify what you regard as Mueller and Stewart’s single strongest contention, take a position on it, and – briefly – critically evaluate US post 9/11 responses to terrorism in light of your position on their contention.