by Matthew Scott

Created on: May 13, 2008

The 'War on Terror' as a political invention

Is the War on Terror a political invention? While I usually write in at least a quasi-scholarly way, the absolute and well-nigh uncontrollable urge to speak to each and every person that believes in the war and to shake sense into them may prevent me. If I seem at all brutish or "over the top," surely it may be understood that it is due to the incredible inanity of the times. This work will also seem somewhat discombobulated and very long since I think it proper for extensive reasoning on interrelated themes and subjects to be articulated. Hence, I will utilize distinctly spaced subtitles. For those that want to retrieve only the necessary information, simply look for the sections that seem to bear a title expedient to ones interests.

My Answer in its Simplest Form, Folks

Indeed, I, without a modicum of doubt, without the slightest bit of ambiguity, posit that the war on terror is political invention, that it is, absolutely, a fallacious and cynically-devised propaganda campaign. Can there be truth to the myth that there exists an ostensible war on terror? Yes, with the corollary being, only inasmuch as there exists a war on the Boogie Man and Tooth Fairy.

Have I hurt someone's feelings? Well, too bad. Can it actually be believed that America faces a threat equally as menacing as that of the Nazis, as is often stated or otherwise implied? Are such people really serious? Indeed, they are; and it is because there has been a calculated effort by the War on Terror public relations specialists to seamlessly bolster the perceived threat level to such a state; former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer has already admitted as much, suggesting that rising threat levels have purportedly coincided with low approval ratings and the like. Seriously, we actually say homeland like Nazis; we actually code the level of danger with bright colors; we actually accept the President's Unitary Executive theory despite its sweeping monarchial overtones or otherwise austere and thoroughly un-democratic qualities; we actually torture to protect; we actually submit to domestic and illegal spying for ostensibly our own good, evidence proving otherwise; we actually accept losses of Habeas Corpus and Posse Comitatus; we actually believe in the illimitable and amorphous enemy and related "Long War,"; we actually submit ourselves and our labor or, more appropriately, our yet to be earned labor, to the cost-plus, no-bid, zero accountability,

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