The U.S. measures "terrorist" activity

by including warfare operations

(attacks) against U.S. military forces

Is guerilla warfare against military targets

the same as terrorism when

"the enemy" engages in it,

but not when the military engages in it?

Blowback is the phenomenon of creating

a terrorist by treating an innocent person

as a terrorist until that person decides

that prior punishment justifies retaliation

in the form of the crime that he/she

was punished for to begin with

Blowback is the guarantor of self-perpetuating war,

a very profitable business venture

for the investor class

The US government and Washington elites are aggressively ramping up their “war on terrorism” rhetoric and propaganda.

They are stoking fear and paranoia in order to bolster their war agenda, and reinvigorate the mass public perception of new and growing “homegrown terrorism” threats to the US homeland.

The next phase of America’s war abroad (under the management of a post-Bush neocon/neoliberal consensus), and the deepening militarization of the US homeland towards a full police state, are well underway.

It has been clear for months that the scandal-ridden Bush administration, collapsing under the weight of its own criminality, and plummeting public confidence and political support, is desperate to manufacture the appearance of progress, even triumph, in its waning months.

In order to portray themselves as the Homeland’s premier “anti-terrorist” saviors, Bush and his functionaries must now attempt to sell their ability to solve to bogus problem with “terror” arrests and foiled plots, which have recently included the capture and execution of certain key Al-Qaeda figures.

The Bush Regime were masters of marketing terrorism post 9/11.

One of the main objectives of war propaganda is to ‘fabricate an enemy’.

As anti-war sentiment grows and the political legitimacy the Bus Regime falters, doubts regarding the existence of this illusive ‘outside enemy’ must be dispelled.

Propaganda purports not only to drown the truth but also to ‘kill the evidence’ on how this ‘outside enemy’, namely Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda was fabricated and transformed into ‘Enemy Number One’.

The entire National Security doctrine centers on the existence of an ‘outside enemy’ which is threatening the Homeland.

The Semantics of Terrorism, Guerilla Warfare and War for Profit

The U.S. Special Forces have soldiers operating in Afghanistan out of uniform, even photographed in local garb riding horses. Are these men terrorists because they operate out of uniform?

The U.S. measures "terrorist" activity by including warfare operations (attacks) against U.S. military forces. Is guerilla warfare against military targets the same as terrorism when "the enemy" engages in it, but not when the military engages in it?

What are "enemy combatants"? Three U.S. soldiers were taken prisoner in Iraq last week. The media reports them as being "kidnapped" by "terrorists".

How do you kidnap a soldier during wartime? Do you invite him to attend a party out of uniform and then take him kidnap him as an act separate from warfare?

The U.S. government and media seem to classify American performance of warfare as legitimate, but the same exact operations by "the enemy" are always considered to be "terrorism", even when the acts are targeted against uniformed military personnel in the performance of their military duties.

American special forces in Afghanistan, operating out of uniform, are legal combatants. Afghans kidnapped and sold for ransom are "enemy combatants", even if they never held a weapon in combat, and "terrorists" if they did.

Iraqis are divided into two classes, "terrorists" or "terrorist suspects" and are treated pretty much the same.

Iraqis are subject to execution by the American military if viewed as an active threat and to indefinite detention if considered a potential threat, or even if they are suspected of knowing someone who is a potential threat.

Blowback is the phenomenon of creating a terrorist by treating an innocent person as a terrorist until that person decides that prior punishment justifies retaliation in the form of the crime that he/she was punished for to begin with. Blowback is the guarantor of self-perpetuating war, a very profitable business venture for the investor class.

American troops become "cannon fodder" for "terrorists" and "enemy combatants" to target because the investor class has not yet figured out a good way to perpetuate warfare without "boots on the ground".

And "cannon fodder", who are equally victims of "the enemy" and the investment class back home, help keep the masses at home motivated to keep the cycle of violence perpetuated and the cannon fodder motivated to risk and give their lives for the benefit of the investor class.

In other words, the "war on terror" is a grotesque business venture which victimizes many for the sake of a few.

Labels are applied to many types of victimized people so that warmongering can keep the war economy humming along to the enrichment of the few whose own sons and daughters are not put at risk, but whose fortunes increase with the dropping of every bomb, the firing of every missile, and the shedding of every drop of blood.

Business is very good these days in the "war on terror", though the human cost is very high.Stan Moore @ MMN