国際教養学部AO入試 （早稲田、上智、国際教養） 補助教材 War on Terror and Collective Self-defense

Read the following interview transcript and answer the following questions.

After U.S. Sanctions & Wars Tore Iraq Apart, Can American-Led Strikes Be Expected to Save It?

DemocracyNow October 2, 2014  Interview with Sinan Antoon, an Iraqi poet, novelist and translator who works as a professor at New York University who teaches Arabic literature

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/2/after_us_sanctions_wars_tore_iraq

Questions:

1.    Summarize professor Sinan Antoon’s opinion about war on terror.

     Sample Answer:

     Sinan Antoon argues that so-called war on terror only creates more terrorism. What US and its allies have been doing is attacking or sanctioning the country whose resource is of their interest, oil in the case of Iraq, until part of the oppressed people resort to violence, call them terrorists, and give them air strikes. This strategy disintegrates the country, killing countless innocent citizens, and makes the area the hotbed of so-called terrorists.

2.    Discuss Japanese participation in collective self-defense missions, which would be possible in the future considering the war on terror described above.

     Sample Answer:

     Collective self-defense is not always related to dire crisis such as imminent danger of a large number of lives. Its application involves the general interest of the country such as transportation of resources. On the other hand, the areas where this kind of operation would be necessary are the most devastated areas on this planet. Although it should never be justified, terror can be interpreted as the cry of a part of society which gets the pressure of the system, in today’s world it is the scream of those extremely oppressed in the expansion of the West. Suppressing it won’t stop it. What is called war on terror is like punishing a defiant person who has long been abused by bullies. Joining the war on terror is joining the mob activities of countries whose systems are working in capitalism and globalization only to create more terror activities. Even when the direct purpose of the operation is to save Japanese nationals who became victims of terrorism, the gravity of the action will not change. Though Japan has already been indirectly in this activity by supporting its economic allies mainly through PKO, allowing the use of the Self Defense Force for this purpose will confirm its stance of avoiding the fundamental solution and trying to make the underprivileged and angry quiet by terrorizing them and wiping them out.