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Richard R. Duck, Ph.D.

The terrorism expert, the Department of UM of Professor of History

By Brian

To call Richard Duck a sterling analytical historian and an intellectual prized face, while a lot true, the pay scarcely the suitable respect. The duck, the author of books and the internationally numerous acclaimed items on the Italian, begun history the classes of teaching to the University of Montana in 1982. Extremely considered by its students, completely respected by its colleagues, it ripened in one of the gems of the academic university, and his course: Terrorism: Political violence in the Modern World is routinee one of the more eminent one on the campus.

Careless to do the transparent generalizations of, the terrorism is an infinitely complicated and complex subject, with the acts and the exploits belongs to the categories and to the separated subcategories as the state terrorism, the individual terrorism, the state terrorism committed against a foreign population and a terrorism of individual or group committed against the state. The duck, voted most of Inspiring Professor by the aineds that advance of 1991 and of profitable one of Erudit of Distinguished UM Attributes in 1996, familiarizes its students with the wave and the terrorism advancement in the modern world, beginning with the terrorist episodes at the time of the Revolution and at the time of French ends with the contemporary events. It grants that his terrorism course can be difficult to teach because it stimulates so varied, ideological, religious and ethnic passions. Dilemmas and the emotions aside, the class room is not the place for indoctrination or the political manipulation, said the Duck: "I go before my students and explains also clearly as I can the two sides. Or how much the sides arrive to be there. And I try to be fails it and critical to all different sides of an argument, describing such debates completely and completely, and then to allow them knowledge where I think the preponderance of the lies of proof".

The different types of terrorist challenges deserve various types of solutions, said the Duck. While it believes that a military option is a response validates to the certain circumstances, once a terrorist organization establishes strong connections in a community or a country, obtaining the substantial support and a compassionate basis, as is the case, it believes, in the Shiite and in sunnite communities Moslem in Iraq today, a military solution never will be victorious. "Once the military response fails, a dimension more political, more social or more economical must be added to the equation. If the support for a group is negligible, then you can send the navy soldiers for the cautedriserae¦si the serious support exists then it this is the time to consider a strategy far more varied. Sometimes a political compromise can detach such support".

Liquidate the terrorists do not eliminate the problem or the shed support that such groups attract, said the Duck, that added that invading Iraq was a poorly directed and incapable response to the atrocious assaults of September 11, 2001: "Richard Clarke (the counselor of national security to four American presidents, including George W. Bush) put it the more edloquemment in his book Against All Enemies, when it describes the terrorism as something that evokes metastasises everywhere in the Islamic world as a direct consequence of this invasion. We have really need to revise our strategy in this country or we are the limit to flow deeper and deeper in a violence quagmire there. I think that we do the bad thing base on my history knowledge".



"To change our military resources far of Afghanistan and towards our military budget in Iraq, a country that did not attack us, is the thing more uniquely unintelligent than the president could have done. Now we obtained billions and billion dollars going out on a hemorrhage. The not only irresponsible east, but the results were tragic and they are the limit to obtain worse. Our leaders were ignorant in to dispatch to the war, something that the leaders of a country cannot be when they decide to enter in the war. The shrub and his entourage obtain from the bad degrees as leaders in my eyes".

The duck, always interested with examining the reason student of terrorism, feels that our leaders poorly read the symptoms and the causes of such violence, such conditions that, in a lot in a manner, are simpler than To Force the nose of Length. In his 2003 book, Apostles and the Agitators, it explores and student how the ideology of terror becomes rooted in the corporation, explaining the historic element of the tradition more revolutionary, More marxist and More italian to which so many Italians ordinary claimed loyalties, examining its beginnings and its internal hostilities, the men that it formed, and his repercussion and his legs in Italy.

In the world of today, the American leaders are ignorant as for how our politics of the foreign country play on the manners to think about hundreds of millions of people in the world of Islamic Arab, said the Duck, that believes that layered political malfunctions and the economical hopeless environments (80% unemployment rate in the certain countries, soak collapses in the availability of medical services Monstrous crime and without terrorism hope. This political obstinate blindness (the support of incompetent America for Israeli brutality, his finance of Arabic governments to undemocratic bottom as Egypt, and his umbilical relation to despotic and corrupts irreparably oligarchies of oil as Saudi Arabia) does logical foundation of political foreign American a cheerful stock around the world. "The Islamic people do not hate our liberties, our values, and our wealth; the Islamic people hate our political and our actions, because in a lot in a manner we were not just".

A common perception held by million through the Islamic world, said the Duck, is that the United States export his civilization, his culture, and its values in a collective effort to eliminate Islam and the substitute with a version of us: "Our opponents see us this manner: They see our exportation of this culture of Wal-Mart that we perfected here, as the final form of the domination of West and the exploitation of the world of advanced no".

In the constraste splitting to the whole speech noisy of the terrorism in the Middle East, very small is said oil. Our unappeasable dependance of the country to oil, the heroin of the world-wide economy, was the most certainly one of the factors taking us in Iraq, said the Duck. For the percentage of decrease of Americans refusing to believe that the goods of oil of Iraq (and the effect of lever more strategic, more geopolitical and more huge won by its occupying) played a role in the invasion, accepting that the United States are on some type of global country of liberty against the enemies of resolved liberty to roll return of the generations of democratic progress, the Duck said that We think about as the idealists participating in THE business that has democratic values sunk in him, but that is the version of story of fairy of events".

The duck, that maintains one recognized automatically the reputation as an exacting professor, began to student the history because it perceived the this to be the more all surrounding by the learned disciplines. After teaching terrorism as a course subject for the initial time to the University of Wesley in 1980, it composed his first book, about the religion in the Italian civilization, shortly after. The inaugural edition of the duck relates to its terrorism studies, relaxed in 1989, The Mystical and Revolutionary Terrorism in Contemporary Italy, won the Corporation for the Price of Marrano of R. of Howard of Etudes of Historic Italian for the Italian history. Six years later, the Duck published THE Matter Of Murder of Moro of Aldo. Aldo Moro was a recognized leader and political respected and the Italian former Prime Minister that was removed and was murdered by the terrorists in 1978. The terrorist group estimated responsible, the Red Brigades, tried to revolutionize Italy base on their convictions of Marxist ledniniste. The book was translated in Italian the following year. The last book of the duck, Apostles and the Agitators, furnishes a deep historic bottom to the origins of the terror politics of left that ravaged Italy of 1969 to 1984.

What's more, it published the magazines of more than forty book, that appeared in the various newspapers and the learned editions including: The Newspaper of Modern History, The Magazine of Historic Catholic, The Magazine of Historic American, the Terrorism and the Political Violence, History of Work, the Newspaper of Modern Italian Etudes, The European Legs, and The Newspaper of Etudes of Cold War. What's more, the Duck was attributed the Price of Kirby by the Exchange of the south Association of Modern Language in 2000 for his item: "The Italy in the years 60: A Legs of Terrorism and the Liberation," that was published in The Magazine of Exchange of the south.

The duck worked as an expert on the screen and the consultant principal historic one for two documentaries of television of the Italian civilization, the two were broadcasted on the Chain of History. Since the last years 80, it was the coordinator of the university the President Lecture Collection, a program that welcomes ten high different speakers on a period of a year, with the guests representing a big variety of studies in the arts, the sciences, and humanities.



Currently on the vacation sabbatique, treating two separated books, the trips of Duck to Rome and Milan for six weeks beginning in November, preparing equipment (a book will explore the convictions of radical one of Italy left and stalk the evolution of marxisme in this country to the present) and necessary fact, although completely the tax, the archive work. Yes, it will return to UM to teach his course of terrorism of brand of factory in the spring of 2006, where there remains a professor more enormously more kissed and more well more respected, more not more just for his abundant historic knowledge, its observations splitting, and his tendon intellectual, but for his educational integrity.

"The historians, as the professors, are obliged to say that they know," said the Duck. "The two to have a more top to have to the truth. And the two needs to look at things, bringing of a manner criticizes the experiences of the passed in the present, in an effort to instruct, and change the future".