Terrorism
Comment: Learning to live against the terrorist
Europe will have to learn to live with the risk of attacks. The more the feeling seems to be peace at risk, the more we need to stand up for this valuable peace, says Christoph Strack.
Innocent victims, soldiers in battle suits, armored car, panic. Brussels hit by Terror, Europe is shaken. It may be that you feel something in the face of the impact of the images as a “war“, as collateral collapse and more and more civilians, the murders of the victims. After the unimaginable horrors of the Second world war, Germany and Europe are experiencing an almost unique period of peace – it is gone? We accustom us insensibly to Breaking News and terrorist death? This time Brussels…
Christoph Strack is a correspondent in the DW-capital Studio
The terrorists of Paris, of Brussels, Bamako, Ankara, from where also always, are and will remain terrorists. They are aimed at human and social collateral, based on values and tolerance, freedoms. Also on the freedom of any Religion and the freedom of Religion to different Religion. All of the shapes in the best sense of the West. And that’s exactly why the Terror is for the West, it is also a challenge, a test. Our values must be tested and proven. The Knowledge of a free society, the freedom, the security, the freedom done by the security.
Between casual and negligent
It felt certainties are changing for sure. Conflicts no longer correspond to today, many of the relevant “regulations” of earlier centuries. There are unexplained, asymmetric and hybrid wars. And the criminals of the “Islamic state” were also of this name, as a state structure of the countries or communities of States to challenge or attack. But I don’t have you declared war on my country.
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And I should expect that my country and other countries, in the framework of the existing order. Yes, that is a lot of aspects of internal security. And the political debates have to be honest. Just one example: A intra-German flight, neither on the switch nor at the boarding, I am asked for any ID-document. Only months back. Previously it was the casual, today, perhaps due to negligence.
What remains the same: our attitude
The brief account of the Brussels friend who was after the attack in the subway, suddenly, for the first responders, in case of dire suffering: The power of voice and baffled. To such acts, such images will never get used. The morning way to work is not just the journey to the Front. And the decisive fight against Terror is not a war. The attacks will not change our life, they are also, of course, in question. But it should not be able to destroy our basic attitude. And for the freedom of this high, vulnerable Good, to stand up.
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