Bush's Language of War Is Incompatible with Democracy: There is no such a thing as War on Terror
Prince Albert - Wednesday - September 13, 2006 - by: Mario deSantis
“Language matters, because it can determine how we think and act.” George Lakoff and Evan Frisch [1]
"The only transcendence of our individual loneliness that we can experience arises through the consensual reality [language] that we create with others, that is, through love.” Humberto Maturana [2]
I am trying again to write political and economic stories after over a year and half hiatus, and I am very happy that Timothy Shire, editor of Ensign, will be integrating these stories with his creative graphics. With the fifth anniversary of the 9-11 attacks I am pondering again about the behaviour of war monger president Bush. Last Monday night in his televised speech he stated that “It is a struggle for civilization... The safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the streets of Baghdad... and we must put aside our differences, and work together to meet the test that history has given us.”[3] Bush is a causal hypocrite, I mean not a casual hypocrite, I mean Bush is a causal hypocrite, that is a 'determined hypocrite' (Orwellian double thinker) who can hold two contradictory beliefs simultaneously and accept them[4]. There is no such a thing as a clash of civilizations yet[5] but in the mind of the dogmatic neo-uber-alles[6]. How can anyone visualize that the safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the streets of Baghdad when this world is struck all over by so much injustice, poverty, religious and economics demagogy, and chronic wars? How can anyone believe that Bush wants to put aside our differences and work together while his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are causing so many deaths and material destruction along with the unintended consequence to bolster the political ambitions of Bush's axis of evil Iran and with the unintended consequence to have a narco Afghanistan and a resurgent Taliban?[7] President Bush and his neo-uber-alles are all causal hypocrites (Orwellian double thinkers) and they must not get away with the pursuing of their private business interest to wage wars under the guise of exporting democracy! Democracy is not something to be exported[8]; democracy is nothing else but the progressive enhancement of our common good, that is our overall welfare. The pursuing of democracy or the pursuing of the common good are incompatible with waging wars, and that is why we need to use our common language so that we can learn together to live in peace. In the article 'Five Years After 9/11: Drop the War Metaphor', authors George Lakoff and Evan Frisch explain that 'terror' is an emotional state, and that you cannot wage a war on terror. However, they emphasize the obvious, that is, we can police crimes. Let me reinforce this understanding by re-writing: We cannot distinguish terrorists from criminals, and therefore in order to fight terrorism we have to fight any crime as understood by the civilized world. (9)
	Mario deSantis
References:
1. . ..	Lakoff, George and Frisch, Evan , Five Years After 9/11: Drop the War Metaphor, September 2006, The Rockridge Institute http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/rockridge/fiveyearsafter911/view
2. ..	Maturana, Humberto, Biology of Language: The Epistemology of Reality, page 62, 1978, New York: Academic Press http://www.enolagaia.com/M78BoL.html
3. .	Bush, George W. President's Address to the Nation, The Oval Office: The Fifth Anniversary of September 11, 2001 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060911-3.html
4. .	deSantis, Mario, Have governments reduced their citizens to Doublethinkers? February 18, 2004 , Ensign http://ensign.ftlcomm.com/desantisArticles/2003_800/desantis876/doublethink.html
5. .	Holland, Joshua, The Clash of Civilizations Doesn't Exist... Yet, September 1, 2006, AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/41032/
6. .	deSantis, Mario, The division of the Free Market, Geo-Politics and Religious Dogmatism, October 20, 2003, Ensign http://ensign.ftlcomm.com/desantisArticles/2003_800/desantis839/dogma.html
7. .	Scheer, Robert, Gaping Holes in the 9/11 Narrative, September 10, 2006, Truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/20060910_robert_scheer_holes_9_11/
8. .	Lieven, Anatol and Hulsman, John, The Folly Of Exporting Democracy, September 12, 2006, Tompaine http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/09/12/the_folly_of_exporting_democracy.php
9. . .	deSantis, Mario, Bush's Best Solutions for the Corruption of Corporate America:Waging Wars and Promoting Dollarization, March 12, 2002, Ensign http://ensign.ftlcomm.com/desantisArticles/2002_600/desantis603/corporate.html
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