Words, words, words: the rhetoric of the war against terrorism

"Words, words, words": the rhetoric the "war on terror"

Maryam Sakeenah

"A Mandate Heaven ":

With nearly all that jazz "values, democracy and freedom, is, after all, the rhetoric machine words Fashion in the agitation of the sale. Noam Chomsky shows how expressions such as "free speech", the "free market" and the world " free "have little to do with freedom." Among the myriad freedoms claimed by the United States government is the freedom to kill, destroy and dominate others. The freedom to finance and sponsor despots and dictators around the world. The freedom to train, arm, and shelter to terrorists. The freedom to topple democratically elected governments. The freedom to assemble and use weapons of mass destruction, chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. The freedom to go to war against a country whose government does not agree. And, most terrible of all, the freedom to commit these crimes against humanity in the name of "justice" in the name of "Justice" in the name of "freedom." Attorney General John Ashcroft said the freedom of Americans is not " granting of a government or document, but … a gift from God. "Arundhati Roy said:" Basically, we are armed with a country with a mandate from heaven. Perhaps this explains why the U.S. government refuses to judge by the same moral standards by which other judges. His technique is positioned as well-intentioned giant whose good deeds are confounded in foreign and intriguing native, whose markets, it is free, whose societies are trying modernization, including women, who tries to free, trying to save their souls. Perhaps this belief in his own divinity also explains why the United States the government has given itself the right and freedom to murder and exterminate people "for their own good."

Bush ended September 20 2001 speaks thus: "I will not release lead this fight for freedom and security for the American people. The course is not yet known the result is true. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them. We are confident of the rightness of our cause and confident of victories to come. God bless the United States. "Curiously, the operation in Afghanistan has been called" Justice Infinite ", where Muslims are opposed, it was only a divine attribute. The name was replaced by a fantastic, explosive exaggerated self-righteousness and safety success confident, "Enduring Freedom". Some rhetorical control!

CROSS THE RHETORIC

Closely related this dimension is the use of the rhetoric of a moral crusade in the lines of traditional Christian rhetoric of a type that may have been the Pope Urban II in 1099. main media communication has begun to develop a mentality of religious war. January Abidullah wrote in "The Origins of the crusade final list of titles of articles as: "It is a religious war: September 11 was only the beginning", "Yes, it is Islam," "the core of Islamic rage Jihad, 101, "" Islamic terrorism "War raises old Holy Warriors in a new front", etc. On September 16, 2001, the BBC reported Bush had declared a "crusade" when the president said: "This crusade, this war against terrorism will take time." With the waves of outrage that has been created in the Muslim world, the excuses are due. But five months later, the president repeated the word, when addressing the U.S. troops in which he calls the war as "an important crusade to defend freedom incredible." George W. Bush, which he describes as a "Christian born again, was quoted by Bob Woodward in his book "Plan of Attack", which describes itself as a "messenger of God" do the will of the Lord. "States in January," regurgitating the threat to the sanctity of "our way of life" and "our values" is part of the plan for people to feel threatened. "It is important, of course, to use rhetoric to increase insecurity, thus the reason to keep the war against terrorism will be pumped.

HORROR PREPOSTROUS

The rhetoric has generated fear in the American public. The Department Homeland Security has problems proving that "the threat to U.S. interests someone, somewhere in the world, has increased. The anonymous author Imperial Hubris "comments", we refer to CNN experts warning the public that the next attack by Al Qaeda in our country will lead weapons of mass destruction. Warnings are then supplemented by the advice of another world to buy more duct tape and plastic sheeting to wrap their homes and make them airtight, strengths are the weapons of mass destruction. When confronted with vague threats, Washington did what he always does: Fear people in the camp. "

The idealization of the war against terrorism

Using the rhetoric has contributed to the idealization "of the war against terrorism. That eclipsed the true reality on the ground and the real causes conflict, distracting. Even more regrettable is the failure to understand terrorism as a desperate reaction by social pariah, economically and politically oppressed private. Terrorism, in fact, is a tactic used by disgruntled individuals and communities, not an ideology. Instead, terrorism is seen as an opponent, defiant, hostile and "barbarians" evil ideology "in opposition to all that the West stands for and believes in. This is very bad and helps to divide the world in opposing the ideological force Loans dangerous shock "of civilizations thesis. George W. Bush expressed the greatness of this" clash of ideologies in a statement: "We entered a great ideological struggle we have done nothing to invite. "Journalist Margie Burns comments on this:" This statement should sound the alarm for the nation and the world. What Bush meant by ideology "conflict"? All previous statements in the great Bush focused on Global Conflict terrorism and the "war on terror." Bush is trying to present terrorism as an ideology, we-or global conflict with terrorism replace communism. Anyone who suspects they know that terrorism is not an ideology. "Acts of terrorism is a tactic. Now we know exactly who uses, also: individuals and small groups, using guerrilla tactics in other tactics are not available to them, against a strong government too much power or foreign power. "The New York Times July 25, 2005" The Bush administration … promoting the idea that long-term struggle is as much an ideological battle as a military mission. "

Chauvinism

The ring defines the patriotic rhetoric of American chauvinism. He hedges in moral judgments in their own fields, defining values as "America" or "anti-American. Arundhati Roy writes in his book" War Talk " that the fight against the term "America" is used to discredit and correctly define its critics. "Once someone is branded "anti-American (and anti-Semitic), most likely to be judged before being heard and the argument was lost in the whirlwind of national pride. To call someone anti-American, in fact, be anti-American, is not only racism is a lack of imagination. The inability to see the world in different terms to which the institution has established for you: If you're not a Bushie, you're a Taliban. If we do not like, they hate us. If you are not good, you're wrong. If you are not with us, you with terrorists. "This is the" imperial arrogance "The anonymous author mentions in his book by the same arrogance and egocentricity name_ in interpreting events and people from outside the United States. After the attacks of July 7, 2005 London, the G8 leaders denounced as an attack on "our way of life" and said he would never allow the Islamists to "change our values." Connection to the rhetoric of "Islamic terrorism" is to Muslims and Arabs has led to the establishment of racial profiling dangerous and damaged the image of Islam and Muslims in the minds of Western audiences. Discrimination and prejudice against Muslims in the West is at record levels.

The "why they hate America? DISCUSSION

In his 9 / 11 address, President Bush said: "The United States has been targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon of freedom and opportunities in the world. And no one will keep that light is reflected. "In his historic speech of September 20, 2001, President Bush explained why the U.S. is hated:" They hate our freedoms_ our freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom to vote and assemble and agree with each other … terrorists kill not only to end lives but to disrupt and end a way of life … Freedom and fear are at war. The progress of freedom depends on us. "This rhetoric of" hate us for our freedom "became a theme trumpeted in the media, the isolation of the U.S. population of any recognition or implementation of the elements of interest, opportunism and exploitation in the U.S. foreign policy lives_ affecting as many of them Muslims. Arundhati Roy says: "People are invited to make two leaps of faith here. First, assume that the enemy is the United States government" is well, even if no substantial evidence to support this claim. And secondly, assuming Enemy reasons are that the U.S. government says they are, and there is nothing to support anyone. "In fact, the reasons are quite the opposite. The United States is hated not for what it is, but what he did. The smoke screen of rhetoric, however, retains an objective analysis of the real grievances of America "enemies" at a distance. Roy said in a speech praising Noam Chomsky: "If people in the United States want a real answer to the question "Why do they hate us?" (A Guide Unlike clumsy anti-Americanism which is: "Because they are jealous of us" because "hate freedom" "Because they are losers", "Because we are good and they are bad "), I would say, read Chomsky on U.S. military interventions in Indochina, Latin America, Iraq, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Middle East. If ordinary people in the United States read Chomsky, perhaps their questions are framed somewhat differently. It could be: "Why more than they hate us? "O" Is not it surprising that September 11 has not happened before? "

The anonymous author of Imperial Hubris "Repeated calls robotics" hate our freedom "and threatening errant nonsense." He said, "no sign of a Muslim who seek to wage jihad to destroy democracy or credit unions, or universities. That the United States only formulation and implementation of policies affecting the Muslim world is much more inflammatory. "The U.S. must recognize that the power to redress grievances Muslim world are not unfounded. However, this rhetoric diverts attention from the real causes and prolongs the beauty, the American dream. Eyes Wide Shut. In context, agencies continue to accumulate.

ENEMY dehumanize

Empathy is absolutely necessary to understand the phenomenon terrorism and to begin a healing strategy. There is an element we are all endowed natural humanization, we can understand each other as participants in a human individual essential common. Rhetoric controls empathy with the enemy as subhuman, evil, bestial. Ensure that the "human connection" is not established, dehumanize the enemy. Rhetoric tends to mention the other side as "enemy abstract" or as a sub-human, demonic "axis of evil." Rhetoric has worked hard to divert the sympathy of the victims of the most brutal wars and misfortunes of the West in recent decades. He divided the world into "The West and the "rest and introduced the West to be on a divine mission assigned liberation against the inhuman creatures of lower order and should be taught in a civilization. In 1937, Winston Churchill said of the Palestinians: "I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the right end of the crib, though there may be held for very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not accept, for example, that a great wrong has been done to the Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I admit that one has committed wrong to these people for the fact that a stronger race, a race of superior quality, career-wise of the world again, things shared in this way, they came and took their place. "In 1969, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir said:" The Palestinians do not exist. "Premier Minister Menachem Begin called Palestinians "Two-legged beasts." Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir called them "locusts" that can be crushed. "

Kyle Fedler said: "When demonize our enemies just as wholly abstract and the enemy as totally evil." (On Rhetoric a war against terrorism, September 2001). This makes methods and means of war against brutal terror without moral constraints, conducted itself in security itself a moral position. Again it is the rhetoric that comes to the rescue when human rights are violated. This is what the euphemism collateral damage "was invented for for_ 150, 000 + dead in Iraq and Afghanistan. America's problem killing machines of high technology to destroy life other than the specific aims solved using the language of the imagination.

GREY AREAS

The dividing line between "terrorism" and "fighting terrorism" (or "war on terrorism") is confused here. Kyle Fedler said: "The invocation language of war allows the direct and deliberate of innocent people. So how is it different from terrorism? If terrorism is the deliberate and direct of innocent people to achieve a larger goal, which are not directly related, not only is Terrorism? "The underlying logic of terrorist attacks as well as "retaliatory" wars against governments that "support terrorism" is the same: both punish citizens for the actions of their governments.

The power of the rhetoric that comes with all the authority Glamour and technology superpower in the world has also played havoc with the public. It has become, with their distorted morality, perverse integrity of human consciousness, head and heart. Therefore, prejudice is established as a fact, a myth a reality. The masses are numb to terrible atrocities under the pretext of the "war on terror." And the questions can not be claimed. As Bush's father had says: "I say, Go."

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