Justifying everywhere war requires reviving the archaic category of common enemies of humanity

Evidence

To do this fully, however, it would be necessary, in contradiction to contemporary law, to resuscitate the archaic category of “common enemies of humanity.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 830

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in twisted logic of impunity for imperial combatants and the collapse of war/peace distinction. — connects to: Moral philosophy is now being deployed to facilitate war; Collective responsibility replicated the Nazis’ Oradour justification principle; Categorizing one’s enemy as sub-human legitimizes increased violence and justifies violation of basic human rights. — Dehumanization (+6 more)

Related

• Constructing the enemy as boundless justifies war across all regions and peoples (similarity 0.83)
• Grand civilizational rubrics invent false collective identities that enable deadly conflicts (similarity 0.80)
• Collective responsibility replicated the Nazis’ Oradour justification principle (similarity 0.79)
• Human-rights discourse has replaced civilizational rhetoric as war’s legitimation (similarity 0.79)
• The clash-of-civilizations paradigm serves to prolong dominance (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A shared dehumanizing logic links War on Terror crusades across hemispheres #expands (0.60)
• The clash-of-civilizations paradigm serves to prolong dominance #expands (0.55) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 233
• Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks #exemplifies (0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 421
• Colonized peoples must fight cleanly by double standards while colonizers freely use terror #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 65
• US post-war hegemony repurposed Orientalism and modernization theory to justify empire. #expands (0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 28