Exam 10: Ethics and the War on Terrorism Defining Terrorism

Brecher (2007) critiques the as a "fantasy derived from philosophers' thought-experiments which are usually designed to test the limits of moral theory."

There is one universally accepted practical and legal definition of "terrorism."

Although it is allegedly being used during interrogation of suspected terrorists, ________ is a crime under federal law.

Brecher (2007) suggests that the occupation of torturer would radically reconfigure people's conceptions of everyday decency.

Which of the following are the ethical arguments against targeted killing?

Proponents of the____________________ approach to the war argue that prisoners arrested following 9/11 are to be considered prisoners of war (POWs) until a competent tribunal determines otherwise.

Self-defense is authorized under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.

Following 9/11 Congress passed the ________ Act which gave government new powers and arguably threatened constitutional rights.

Some advocate that terrorists through their actions have forfeited constitutional and human rights, and that the government can follow the policy of:

What torture methods includes full body ducking of prisoners strapped to a board and to pour icy water over a cloth placed over the face of a prisoner who is strapped down?

Some oppose the "ticking time bomb" argument as a justification for torture because:

Another serious ethical issue is whether the U.S. should allow ______ of alleged enemy combatants detained at Guantanamo Bay.

is seen by many ethicists as a key issue, and many advocate no restrictions on rights they believe to be basic and inviolable such as the prohibition against torture.

Rather than view terrorism as a war or national security problem, some authors suggest that we might better view terrorism as a:

Which of the following are reasons for adopting the war paradigm?

Decisions to wage war under the just war doctrine require that the justice of opting for war is determined by whether a proposed war satisfies a number of criteria, including the following:

One of the goals of Al Qaeda is to kill U.S. citizens, military and civilian no matter where they are found.

Applying a consequentialist approach to the ethics of counterterrorist measures means asking whether such measures:

Wilkinson (2001) points to several risks of adopting a war like approach. Which of the following is not one of those risks?

U.S. practice on seems to have begun with the efforts of the CIA to kill Fidel Castro and continued into the Vietnam War with plots to assassinate the president of South Vietnam and with the Phoenix Program, designed to kill Vietcong leaders.