Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, April 25, 2008 2:39:14 AM
Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky: Here is a passage from another recent bureaucratic attempt of the U.S. Government to combat Terrorism ideologically:
"Language is critical in the war on terror, says another [U.S. Government] doc-ument, an internal "official use only" memorandum circulating through Washington entitled "Words that Work and Words that Don't: A War guide for Counterterrorism Communication."
I am positive that the problem is not in the "language" the U.S. Government uses, or more precisely bans to use. And never has been! The problem is a lack of appropriate U.S. Ideological Instruments - anti-terrorist Education, anti-terrorist PR, that is in fact the Instrument of anti-terrorist propaganda, and anti-terrorist "useful Arts"
(Read more...). This very problem creates a confusion in what "ideological struggle" is and turns the latter in the meaningless "war with words" replacing necessary war with "wrong ideologies" and "ideology of no ideology".
'Jihadist' booted from government lexicon
By MATTHEW LEE
Don't call them jihadists any more. And don't call al-Qaida a movement. The Bush administration has launched a new front in the war on terrorism, this time targeting language.
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