{Christian Terrorism}[31st May 1974]

[Redbook2:38][19740531:2011]{Christian Terrorism}[31^st May 1974]

Friday 19740531.2011

            The philosophy or world-view behind terrorism is basically mechanistic: that the application of pressure on people and their affairs leads to results in the form of redirection of pressure.  That the World Council of Churches, being I believe a body of persons following the faith of a man who (if I am right) understood and placed the individual ultimately above all other human units, should support a system so far opposed to his own, is remarkable.  In today’s conditions terrorism is becoming more and more difficult to combat.  The only chance to succeed against a mechanistic fighting system when mechanistic counter-measures have been shown to fail (or to be politically inapplicable) is to adopt a system based on the human individual.  The British Army showed this in Malaya; whether it will work in an urban context remains to be seen.

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