Psycho-linguistic
warfare and Terrorism; the use of ‘BUT’
Psycho-linguistic
warfare and Terrorism; the use of ‘BUT’
First year students of symbolic logic are introduced to the propositional connectives and, if, or, but then. Recent 'debates’ and controversy concerning the terrorist attacks on the United States have highlighted “But”.
‘Debate’ and ‘discussions’ critical of the United States, commonly claim… ‘The trade centre bombing (note that the attack on the Pentagon is rarely referred to) was terrible... but’.
but implies that the terrorist attacks were not an intrinsically evil act of declared or undeclared war
but
dismisses the uniqueness and human dimension of the terrorist attacks
but
insists that the act should be seen in ‘context’ of alleged failures of US
policy, especially US support of Israel
but
is a counter claim to defining or redefining the reality of the terrorist
attack and is an invitation to critique or dismiss the past, present and
future policy of US government
but
is a relativist position (the attacks were insignificant in comparison to the
alleged adverse effects of American foreign policy)
but
alleges the terrorists were ‘driven’ to desperation by US policies
but
implies that the terrorists represent the dispossessed, marginal and wretched
of the earth (this is not the case; the terrorists were predominantly from
upper class/high status backgrounds)
but
argues US action against Bin Laden and the AQ networks in Afghanistan will
lead to the loss of ‘innocent lives’; overlooking that over 5 000 American and
other nationalities, were murdered in New York and the Pentagon and that the
US President and White House was a terrorist target
but
is a form of sadistic identification with the aggressor.
The advocates of the ‘but’ case are predictably, Muslim fundamentalist spokesmen; liberals, pacifists, leftists, anti-US groupings, anti globalist protestors, PLO spokesmen, journalists, assorted terrorist ‘experts, and international affairs commentators’. ‘But’ is a function of anti-Americanism and it is in the context of psycho linguistic warfare devised by agents of propagandists in the East, and wittingly or unwittingly, replayed in the West. The first casualty of war is not truth, but language.
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Previous editorials |
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| Lakemba's terrorist connections: The 'axis of evil' in Australia | ||
| Australia’s Mufti Sheikh Hilaly meets Hezbollah in Lebanon | ||
| Pakistan-born Faheem Khalid Lodhi, aka Abu Hamza, charged | ||
| Lakemba, Australia: A great place for transnational terrorists | ||
| Sydney’s Sheikh Feiz and his students | ||
| The Al Qaeda CI /CE challenge | ||
| ASIO management and Willie Virgil Brigitte’s dark terrorist network in Australia | ||
| Australia’s Islamic fundamentalist Sheikh Mohamed Omran’s Mystery Train | ||
| Al Qaeda and Islamic rules on espionage | ||
| REVIEW: INSIDE AL QAEDA: How I infiltrated the World’s deadliest terrorist organisation | ||
| ANDREW WILKIE: ONA and Australia’s Progressive Intelligence Officer | ||
| Al-Jazeera –‘Taqiyya Television’- Begins in Australia | ||
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4th March 2003 |
Yosri Fouda of Al Jazeera meets Saddam Hussein and the Director of Iraqi Intelligence: Why? Fouda - A contaminated source | |
| Yosri Fouda and Al- Jazeera- Journalism as terrorism by other means | ||
| Taqiyya and kitman: The role of Deception in Islamic terrorism | ||
| 6th November 2002 | A noted Anglican theologian discusses the ‘Terrorist Threat’ | |
| 31st October 2002 | Implications of the Washington ‘sniper case’: A scenario for US-Iraq war-time terrorism | |
| 19th October 2002 | Bali and Australian Intelligence Failure: ASIO / ONA / DFAT / DIO Directors should be dismissed | |
| 6th October 2002 | Terrorism with a return address: The nuclear suitcase bombs threat | |
| 23rd September 2002 | In the name of Allah, the wise and the merciful | |
| 19th August 2002 | Intelligence (mis)management : The Platitude Masters versus intelligence analysts | |
| 10th May 2002 | Record of conversation between (deleted) Australian Intelligence Officer and USIO | |
| 10th March 2002 | The Assassination of Daniel Pearl: Islam hates “The Other” | |
| 11th February 2002 | Australia's most sophisticated Anti-American Elite Organisation: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) | |
| 15th January 2002 | The neutralisation of intelligence: The rise of the legal mystique, the decline of intelligence capability and the rise in terrorism | |
| 25th November 2001 | Interview with Professor I C Comfort, Professor of Multicultural Law and Inter Ethnic Jurisprudence | |
| 10th November 2001 | Lakemba's Sheik Hilaly:Australia’s anti-semitic multicultural Mufti with many masks | |
| 26th October 2001 | Muslim fundamentalism: the false comfort of illusions | |
| 19th October 2001 |
One thousand Bin Ladens: Inflammatory Australian Muslim Web Site - pro Bin Laden and pro Taliban |
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| Psycho-linguistic warfare and Terrorism: the use of ‘BUT’ | ||
| 12th October 2001 | The methodology of theories of conspiracy | |
| 7th October 2001 | The Australian Broadcasting Commission’s Propaganda: War by other means | |
| 30th September 2001 | Bin Laden in Australia | |
| 26th September 2001 |
BIN LADEN'S war against the United
States of America and the West |
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| 21st September 2001 | Australia: elite anti US opinion |
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