Stephen Cox

Stephen Cox maintains in the following viewpoint that killing terrorists and going to war with the states that sponsor them is the best way to respond to terrorism. He argues that pacifists hold a distorted view of the world, believing that if the United States stopped committing violence against individuals and nations, peace would naturally follow. On the contrary, he asserts, there will always be terrorists committed to harming America, and ignoring them will only encourage more acts of terrorism. Cox is a professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego.

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1. How does Cox characterize the New Jerusalem?
2. How does the author use the movie The Wizard of Oz to support his argument that terrorist Osama bin Laden ought to be...