Dear George,
Terrorism is a symptom of deep structural maladjustments. Of course, we would cut our tongues out before admitting that. Our entire foreign policy requires that we ignore causes and obsess on symptoms. This is the basis and rationale for our imperial oppression. We maintain our position as the world’s number one oppressor by taking draconian measures against symptoms rather than dealing with causes. We are physicians who treat the common cold by plugging the patient’s nose with wax.
The last thing imperialism can afford is common sense.
Were the truth to be told, which it never will be, most of the world’s terrorism is simply a struggle by peoples of the Third World to break the hold of imperial repression. Common sense tells us that we fight terrorism by ending our oppressive activities. This only proves that common sense is the last refuge of fools.
We need terrorism to justify the imperial activities that strengthen the Corporatist State. A “terrorist” label effectively turns any popular democratic movement into a threat to our national security and is a justification to help Third World elites suppress these movements as soon as they arise.
Oil is another example of how common sense could muck everything up. We are burning millions of barrels of oil so our military can secure Middle East oil even though this requires the maintenance of a long and venerable supply line to maintain the oil security we are pissing away in Iraq.
The pathology of common sense would dictate that it would be a hell of a lot cheaper, and burn a lot less oil, to fly a trade delegation over to cut the best deal they could. However, the truth is that military domination is more of a revenue generator for the Corporatist State than negotiation, which involves no no-bid contracts.
My final example of the debilitating effect of common sense is our War on Drugs. We are a nation of drug addicts who keep the international drug trade profitable. Common sense would suggest that we could dry up this market by offering free, unconditional treatment to any addict who asked for it. Such an approach would have a devastating effect on our national security. Were our national addiction to dry up we would have no justification to intervene in the internal affairs of nations like Columbia and Afghanistan. The War on Drugs is our justification for offing union leaders and radical democratic movements in the name of drug interdiction.
The War on Drugs has given you another label with which you can keep the public on edge: the narcoterrorist. This threat joins the ecoterrorist and the Islamofascistterrorist. With labels like these, we can kick ass to the ends of the earth.
The Neocons tell us that aggression steels our national will, as indeed it does. For what is our national will, other than an ego with a hard-on?
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
6:38:16 AM 
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