What Should Be Done?
From October 8, 2001
W hat was the appropriate response to the attacks of 9/11? Less than a month after the collapse of the World Trade Center, J. Bryan Hehir outlined the pastoral, social and policy responses necessary to meet the challenges of the post-9/11 world. Father Hehir called the policy response the most difficult of the three. "A measured response to transnational terrorism cannot be primarily a military response," Father Hehir wrote. "Deeper issues than the use of force lie beneath terrorist actions."
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The Rev. J. Bryan Hehir is Professor of the Practice in Religion and Society at Harvard Divinity School and the Weatherhead Center of International Affairs, Harvard University.
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