The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describethe American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war againstIraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentionalstructure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming todestroy a target. At the center of the first chapter is OdysseusGs killing of the suitors;the second concerns Carl SchmittGs Roman Catholicism and Political Form; thethird and fourth treat FreudGs GThoughts for the Times on War and DeathG andGThe Man Moses and Monotheistic Religion.G Weber then traces the emergenceof an alternative to targeting, first within military and strategic thinking itself(GNetwork Centered WarfareG), and then in Walter BenjaminGs readings ofGCapitalism as ReligionG and GTwo Poems of Friedrich H+lderlin.G
