Is calling the present conflict a 'War on Terror,' just a dangerous misappropriation of an advertising gimmick? According to this analysis from France's Le Figaro newspaper, Washington's careless word play has belittled its own authority, and has placed a 'puny, unrepentant miscreant like Zarqawi' on an equal footing with Bush himself.
Our concern, as Western listeners, came first of all from the fact that George Bush thought it right to personally announce this news. It makes us a bit queasy to see the President of the United States, head of the most powerful country in the world, calling a puny, unrepentant miscreant that turned to violent Islam his direct adversary, as though Zarqawi was in enemy on Bush's level. Hitler's suicide in his bunker on April 30, 1945 was instantly known by the Allies' intelligence services at the time. That was an event fo which a public announcement from either U.S. President Harry Truman or British Prime Minister neither a great ideologue nor the leader of a great nation. He was merely a gang leader who took advantage of the disintegration of the Iraqi state to cause even more chaos in that country. Commenting on the death of the Jordanian killer, President Bush said: The ideology of terror has lost one of its most visible and aggressive leaders. That is the second thing that bothers us. The ideology of terror is a confusing notion, based on the hollow War on Terror, invented by President Bush after the monstrous attacks against American soil on September 11, 2001 (3,000 civilians assassinated). There is not, nor has there ever in history been, an ideology of terror. There have been ideologies, like communism and Nazism, the leaders of which used terror to impose or consolidate their power. The attacks of September 11 were committed by Mohammed Atta and his associates, in the name of the totalitarian ideology that is now spreading quickly in the world: Islamism. It is an ideology that not only organizes societies politically, but governs people's private lives, up to and including their most personal behavior.
Hitler's suicide in his bunker on April 30, 1945 was instantly known by the Allies' intelligence services at the time. That was an event fo which a public announcement from either U.S. President Harry Truman or British Prime Minister neither a great ideologue nor the leader of a great nation. He was merely a gang leader who took advantage of the disintegration of the Iraqi state to cause even more chaos in that country.
Commenting on the death of the Jordanian killer, President Bush said: The ideology of terror has lost one of its most visible and aggressive leaders. That is the second thing that bothers us. The ideology of terror is a confusing notion, based on the hollow War on Terror, invented by President Bush after the monstrous attacks against American soil on September 11, 2001 (3,000 civilians assassinated).
There is not, nor has there ever in history been, an ideology of terror. There have been ideologies, like communism and Nazism, the leaders of which used terror to impose or consolidate their power. The attacks of September 11 were committed by Mohammed Atta and his associates, in the name of the totalitarian ideology that is now spreading quickly in the world: Islamism. It is an ideology that not only organizes societies politically, but governs people's private lives, up to and including their most personal behavior.
The problem is, the minute someone who matters pulls the plug on the US dollar, the economy of the whole world will suffer greatly. The question is whether things will reach a point where the international community will think stopping the US' foreign policy is worth the price of a global recession. guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
