Charles Was First: England introduced the world to "terror" more than 150 years before the French revolutionaries usually credited with the coinage. [...]
While Bush defends military tribunals as an essential part of an effective war on terrorism, the harsh justice they exercise may be used as an "Example of Terror to others, and to keepe the reste in due Awe and Obedience." When we set out to make an example of terrorists, we may end up terrorizing ourselves.
