EXPANSION OF A COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE
INDEPENDENT
“Iran is ‘world’s
biggest sponsor of state terrorism’, says US Defense Secretary James Mattis”
Response to a reader
comment:
“What actually is a
'terrorist'?
Answer.
Anybody uncle Sam says
is a terrorist!”
That is very true.
Today's world is artificially divided up between
"terrorists" and "supporters of terror" versus those
supposedly "opposed to terror."
It is a completely arbitrary and highly misleading division
decided by no one other than the American government and serving its own needs
in manipulating world affairs.
The nomenclature for the division got started in America's
Middle East colony as it tried to distinguish itself for public relations purposes
from the people it had displaced, abused, and killed in substantial numbers.
The artificial and self-serving division was adopted wholesale by the US after
9/11.
The division is a virtual replication, just using new names,
of the world of the Cold War era, also imposed by the US for its own
manipulative purposes - "communists" and "communist sympathizers”
and “fellow-travelers" versus "the Free World." That wording
became so ingrained, we sometimes still see references to the Free World more
than a quarter century after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
One is tempted to recall America's Puritan origins as well
as the still-substantial influence of Bible-thumping Fundamentalism with a
world view of "Satan and his legions" versus "God and His
people."
