Though the death and destruction these acts caused were on the scale of war, the acts themselves were acts of terrorism, albeit on a wholly unprecedented level.
"My major problem is that I have no faith in the current leadership, which must lead us in an event on the scale of war with Iran or a regional war," he said.
It was the ascending scale of war that originally called forth the existence of the nation-state as an administrative unit capable of maintaining mass armies and the infrastructure – for taxation, weapons manufacture, transport, etc – that they require.
As a young gay novelist, he said, I had a duty to write an epic novel about the AIDS epidemic, a work on the scale of "War and Peace".
"By coming here to the City of Ypres and seeing the names of the 54,896 British and Commonwealth soldiers on the Menin Gate, many of them footballers, they can appreciate the scale of war.
The unprecedented scale of war and human catastrophe that has raged across the world has marked this year as one of the most violent in recent times.
"When we do use force, it must be effective, and our objectives must be well defined, so that one deployment doesn't lead to endless others – always with the heavy thumb of American power, resources and resolve on the scales of war".
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