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unpalatable truth
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Wed, 5 Nov 2003 08:56:12 GMT
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I liked this. It has been said before, but it is worth reading again:
Resist the
official pol-speak of Bush’s ‘war on terror’
Terrorism is a salient case in point. In the abstract, “terrorism” is a
terrible thing; everybody deplores it; nobody supports it. Why then is terrorism
such a growth industry? Because its definition is not agreed. It depends where
you stand. Terrorism has, thus, become a much abused, highly fungible term.
For Donald Rumsfeld, for example, the weekend helicopter attack at Fallujah
was simply the work of “terrorists”. That statement conceals a larger,
unpalatable truth...
...From Chechnya, Xinjiang and Indonesia to Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan,
Pakistan, Palestine and the Philippines, the anti-terror “war” has expanded
exponentially with Bush’s blanket blessing. One never would have guessed there
were so many terrorists!
In this loose-lipped, rapid-fire lingo, such people, whether killed or locked
up in Bagram or Guantanamo or a thousand other hell-holes, are by definition
“evil”. Here, you might think, is another trip-wire for the unwary, to be
sidestepped by sensible politicians in the secular, rational west. Not a bit of
it.
Steve Bell was good yesterday too:
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