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On September 19, 2006, UC Berkeley hosted "The Consequences of the War on Terrorism", sponsored by the Goldman Forum on the Press & Foreign Affairs, the Chancellor's Office, the World Affairs Council and the Graduate School of Journalism.

For in house attorneys who work with international laws, the event, marking the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, webcast might be of interest.  Each of the six participants, including a billionaire philanthropist, a law-school dean, and four journalists, took turns Debating what America stands for.

Several of the participants had written books on the war on terrorism, including George Soros, whose latest book, "The Age of Fallibility: The Consequences of the War on Terrorism," formed the starting point for much of the discussion.  "It's a self-reinforcing, vicious circle of escalating violence," Soros concluded. "Bush says [the terrorists] hate us because of what we are, not what we do, and I think that's false." He believes the war on terrorism may destroy the United States more effectively than any terrorist attack could, by destroying its values as an open society.

"Don't count on law, or the courts," stated Christopher Edley, Jr., dean of UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law and founder of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. Americans should not place their trust in the courts to halt the war on terror.