..out of the dark

"The Most Wanted List
International Terrorism
By Noam Chomsky"

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174899/noam_chomsky_terrorists_wanted_the_world_over

On February 13, Imad Moughniyeh, a senior commander of Hizbollah, was assassinated in Damascus. "The world is a better place without this man in it," State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack said: "one way or the other he was brought to justice.
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Joy was unconstrained in Israel too, as "one of the U.S. and Israel's most wanted men" was brought to justice, the London Financial Times reported. Under the heading, "A militant wanted the world over," an accompanying story reported that he was "superseded on the most-wanted list by Osama bin Laden" after 9/11 and so ranked only second among "the most wanted militants in the world."

The terminology is accurate enough, according to the rules of Anglo-American discourse, which defines "the world" as the political class in Washington and London (and whoever happens to agree with them on specific matters). It is common, for example, to read that "the world" fully supported George Bush when he ordered the bombing of Afghanistan. That may be true of "the world," but hardly of the world, as revealed in an international Gallup Poll after the bombing was announced. Global support was slight. In Latin America, which has some experience with U.S. behavior, support ranged from 2% in Mexico to 16% in Panama, and that support was conditional upon the culprits being identified (they still weren't eight months later, the FBI reported), and civilian targets being spared (they were attacked at once). There was an overwhelming preference in the world for diplomatic/judicial measures, rejected out of hand by "the world."

You know - the greatest trick I have seen, is how killing people for political convenience was turned into "our policy is necessary for protecting our national security". Which makes people nod solemnly and accept that a few ten thousand dead is a small price to pay for their own lives.

To somehow make murder of one kind so much more worse than another, that killing to stop it would be necessary. And through this trick it is apparently possible to solemnly declare the public regret one has for the necessary slaughter of thousands. In order to protect our way of life. To secure the future of our way of life. Because the only way to do that, is to slaughter our enemies where they stand! Wherever they may or may not be found. With extreme prejudice! And the crowd goes wild.