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The War on Terror Does Not Exist
By Stephen Dufrechou
NEWS JUNKIE POST
Nov 8, 2009

The “War on Terror” does not exist. It never has. We only perceive the West’s current conflict, against Islamic Fundamentalism, as a “war on terror” because it has been framed as such. The very language we use to discuss this conflict—the terms, the definitions—was chosen by U.S. political leaders.

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These facts have led psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek to say:

“As for the ‘clash of civilizations’, let us recall the letter from the seven-year-old American girl whose father was a pilot fighting in Afghanistan: she wrote that—although she loved her father very much, she was ready to let him die, to sacrifice him for her country. When President Bush quoted these lines, they were perceived as a ‘normal’ outburst of American patriotism; let us conduct a simple mental experiment and imagine an Arab Muslim girl pathetically reciting into the camera the same words about her father fighting for the Taliban—we do not have to think for long about what our reaction would have been: morbid Muslim fundamentalism which does not stop even at the cruel manipulation and exploitation of children … Every feature attributed to the Other is already present at the very heart of the USA. Murderous fanaticism? There are in the USA today more than two million Rightist populist ‘fundamentalists’ who also practice a terror of their own, legitimized by (their understanding of) Christianity.”

Zizek’s thoughts are worth discussing.

Een simpel voorbeeld om de leugens te doorprikken.

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