The War on Terror invites some great interest from a Hobbesian lens of sorts. First of all, it has nothing to do with Islam, terrorists have hijacked the religion for their own means. Because there is no Muslim pope, there is no higher respected figure who can condemn such actions of terrorism, like what the Catholic pope did to the I.R.A. In a Hobbesian lens, there is a state of nature, which is the violent state, the state of the terrorist. The terrorist commits atrocities towards innocent people, indiscriminate violence, and violence towards the people in a Hobbes lens is violence towards the state, because of his famous quote ''the state of nature is the state of nations.'' There are states waging war on the greatest enemy to the state, which is stateless people. Because a terrorist has no diplomats they cannot reason also. Wherever there's a state and indiscriminate violence towards people there will likely be a war.
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