Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:50:50 PM
William Gibson is famous for inventing the word "cyberspace," way back in 1982. In his latest novel, Spook Country, he is inventing another striking term - "A cold civil war".
"Useful" novel by William Gibson
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Quotation from novel Spook Country by William Gibson:
Alejandro looked over his knees. "Carlito said there is a war in America."
"A war?"
"A civil war."
"There is no war, Alejandro, in America."
"When grandfather helped found the DGI, in Havana, were the Americans at war with the Russians?"
"That was the 'cold war.' "
Alejandro nodded, his hands coming up to grip his knees. "A cold civil war."
Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:
With all due respect to the term "A cold civil war." invented by William Gibson he is missing a very important point. The Nation is at Civil War, but this is Ideological Civil War.
The difference is crucial. A Cold War is the war of deterring with just a theoretical possibility to be turned into a hot confrontation. U.S. Ideological Civil War is an incessant battle for hearts and minds of the American people.
The current U.S. Ideological Civil War is a direct result of ideological immaturity of the majority of the American people refusing to accept the hard reality of the Global War on Terrorism and fight Terror.
(Read more...) Therefore, a defeat in the U.S. Ideological Civil War may cause a loss of the National Sovereignty. It will certainly end up with an arbitrary number of casualties when the Nation attacked on the American mainland with Weapons of Mass Destruction.
The truth of the matter is that too many Americans failed to recognize the true nature of the total modern terrorist warfare. They are "clueless about Islamic terrorists war"
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