The Siren Call of Cassandra: Communism, Drugs, and Terror
Oft times, it can be hard to see the big picture when you're in the thick of things. But when you step back, sometimes you're amazed. The following passage is from a paper I wrote in spring of 1997:
Puts the "war on terrorism" in a new light, doesn't it?
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posted by mW @ 8:06 PM
"'Global communist expansion' has historically been the most important part of the mythology that has legitimated U.S. expansionism . . . Narco-terrorism is now being presented in the same way, that is, as a grave external threat that the United States has a moral imperitive to fight, a moral imperative that legitimates intervening in some Latin American countries and propping up puppet or reactionary governments in others. If it is not the Soviet 'evil empire,' it is the 'evil empire' of herion, or of drugs in general (or whatever threat eventually eclipses the war on drugs)" (quotes and citations omitted). (Click here for the full text).
Puts the "war on terrorism" in a new light, doesn't it?
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