What Is The "War On Terror"?
We're told it's the fight to protect "liberal democracy" ...
Yes, and with "liberal democracy" being imposed at gunpoint, eh?! However, "democracy" is just a fancy word for "mob rule", and one thing we can see in this "war on terror" is mobs fighting amongst themselves for the top of the hill while nevertheless working together as long as any monarch - Saddam has just been executed - is ultimately unseated. To wit:
... western nations are allied with countries like Turkey and Russia have friendships and business dealings with nations such as Saudi Arabia, etc . . . we have Bush going over to China a country with a awful human rights record to rival that of Saddam and Milosevic put together . . . not forgetting all the terrorism committed by the axis of [alleged] good . . .
So yes, and while looking at the ground, the so-called "war on terror" includes the eradication of monarchism via mere "subjects" establishing their "mob rule".
Looking up, however, the "war on terror" is more greatly about mankind trying to avoid his creator-monarch's ultimate destruction of all evil. From the same speech Shayah has referenced, here is what GWB has said along that line:
Some speak of an age of terror [as mentioned in Scripture]. I know there are struggles ahead, and dangers to face ['cause some of my advisors are quite familiar with Scripture]. But this country will define [these end] times, not be defined by them. As long as the United States of America is determined and strong, this will not be an age of [final-judgment] terror; this will be an age of liberty [from an absolute and sovereign creator-monarch], here and across the world. (Applause.)
... The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of [any creator-monarch's] violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.
(Applause.)
From: "President Declares 'Freedom at War with Fear'", 09/20/2001
President Declares "Freedom at War with Fear"
Makhno has asked:
Isn't this "war on terror" thing just a bit stupid?
Certainly, yet mankind does have its delusions, and one of them is that man might ultimately somehow successfully rise up against the creator of all and gain for himself these things:
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Progress
A royal journey marked by pomp and pageant;
The progressive (pompous) development of humankind.
Pluralism
A theory that there are more than one or two kinds of ultimate reality;
A theory that reality is composed of a plurality of entities;
A state of society in which members of diverse groups maintain autonomous participations in and developments of their respective groups within a common, global civilization.
Tolerance
Sympathy or indulgence for differing or conflicting beliefs or practices;
Allowable deviations from a standard;
The capacity to endure or become less responsive to something.
Freedom
A state of exemption from external power or control; liberty*;
Exemption from fate, necessity, or external restraint or constraint;
License; improper familiarity; violation of the rules of correctness.
(*Liberty suggests release from all restraint or compulsion.)
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So then, and as GWB has made apparent, today's "War On Terror" is an on-going effort in a fight-to-the-end while trying to gain the above:
This is the world's fight. This is civilization's fight. This is the fight of all who believe in progress and pluralism, tolerance and freedom.
... We are in a fight for our principles ... [progress and pluralism, tolerance and freedom]. (same speech)
Shayah has added a comment I believe relates to even more of what GWB has said:
Bush declared: "Our 'war on terror' begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated."
Shayah: "It is difficult to precisely define the WoT because the opposition is by nature an amorphous and opaque entity."
What does GWB mean by "every terrorist group of global reach"?
First, or "on the ground", he is talking about any political, religious, philosophical or economic organization, group of people, assembly or system in conflict with "progress and pluralism, tolerance and freedom": The pompous development of humankind - a plurality of entities governing a society that is sympathetic and indulgent for differing or conflicting beliefs or practices in an overall state of exemption from external power, control, restraint, constraint, fate, necessity or rules of correctness.
More specifically, however, fundamental (or "exclusive") Islam, Judaism and Christianity are not compatible with the above. Hence, GWB's 09/20/01 speech clearly warns all "radical Muslims" anywhere on earth to either conform to today's "progress and pluralism, tolerance and freedom" or face death.
Looking up, however, who or what else might be behind anything conflicting with the pompous (or self-) development of humankind? "Amorphous" can mean "fluid", or able to flow virtually anywhere, and "opaque" can mean "obscure", as in "not easily viewable, recognizable or identifiable." Today's global mobs having their wars and rumors of same are often quite "amorphous and opaque" ... and that fact makes "amorphous and opaque" available even to the war itself, thereby even further making "amorphous and opaque" the so-perceived "enemy" that is ultimately being fought:
"Who has gone up to the heavens and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who established all the ends of the earth? What is His Name ...?" (Proverbs 30:4)
For in whatever right-or-wrong ways, anything and everything in conflict with today's war-on-terror goal of "progress and pluralism, tolerance and freedom" is somehow related to Him.
Who ultimately wins?
Well, man has yet to even rid himself of earthly monarchs ...
... and I can hardly contain myself every time I again read this:
"It is my hope that in the months and years ahead, life will return almost to normal ..." (GWB, 09/20/2001)
