The Official Propaganda for a New Sort of World War
very interesting analysis from Munich’s Gegenstandpunkt
“They make a wasteland and call it peace …”
(Tacitus)
If the President of the United States of America were just to frankly and honestly inform the attentively listening world public of the current state of world affairs, namely that he, the leader of the world power and thereby master of the world, intended to annihilate his nation’s last remaining foes — even those who haven’t yet drawn any attention to themselves; that he was determined to neutralize entire states in the wake of this program, simply because he regarded them as strongholds of hostility toward his country; and that he would spare neither time nor scale in executing his plans, since in his opinion, his country from now on would be secure only if he made the rest of the world thoroughly insecure through his wars — then maybe it could happen that somebody would be a bit alarmed in facing a world come to this.
But thank God it isn’t so; rather, a civilized gentleman in a dark suit reports to the world with composure and sympathy concerning the challenges we all face; bears witness to perils that have to do with him and his country only inasmuch as they endanger the highest values of all those who count themselves among the good; in the name of all, and vicariously for all, only carries out responsibilities commanded by moral duty in his fight against evil in the world; yet in addition kindly invites all equally goodwilled people to fight at his side, so as to deliver humanity from evil, in this case called terrorism — such being the case, all his listeners owe him a deep debt of gratitude; for at bottom stands before them only a fighter against everything that frightens them the most…