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To say that an effective cure of a disease requires a sound diagnosis is to state the obvious. Yet, in the face of the 9/11 plague, and of the scourge of terrorism in general, the Bush administration has utterly failed to shed any light on some of the submerged factors that might have provoked such heinous attacks. Not only has the administration not shed any light on the political issues behind terrorism, but it has, in fact, created more heat and confusion by attributing it to simplistic and politically expedient factors such as “hatred of our freedom,” or “good versus evil,” or the “Islamic incompatibility with the modern world.” The administration further compounded the confusion by shifting the focus of the narrative on terrorism from the perpetrators of the 9/11 atrocities to the U.S.-defined “global terrorism” in general, and to Saddam Hussein and Iraq in particular.
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Hossein-zadeh, I. (2006). Militant Islam, Terrorism, and “Clash of Civilizations”. In: The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403983428_6
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