ring into moral critique, a basic focus on: (1) threat perception and strategic goal definition; (2) US military capacity and; (3) international political climate, reveals the untenable nature of a counterterrorist plan that lacks realistic structural and substantive limitations.
             Chapter I: Threat Perception and Strategic Goal Definition
             Defining the terrorist threat: the phantom menace before and after 9/11
             The most problematic aspect of fighting terrorism is the absence of a target in the traditional sense of warfare (the obvious example being a territorially delimited state). Even with the identification of key terrorist actors, sponsors, or the location of terrorist cells, the character of both political and radical forms of terrorism do not obey traditional principles of international engagement. There are measures
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