The Role of Helpless Femininity in Selling the War on Terror
A Change in the Wind has an excellent essay posted about “The Terror Myth in American History.” The last paragraph totally nails the callous playing of women’s lives as a prop to justify the scene that has run throughout this horrid tale,
“Also restored was the defense of helpless femininity. Witness the Bush administration’s much-trumpeted claims to be saving Afghan women from their burqas and Iraqi women from Saddam Hussein’s “rape rooms.â€? Or the military’s much-ballyhooed “rescueâ€? of Pvt. Jessica Lynch (albeit from a hospital whose caregivers had tried to return her to American forces, but had been driven back by American gunfire). Or the invention of a supposedly huge new voting bloc of “security moms,â€? trembling-lipped homemakers desperate to re-elect the sheriff who would keep terrorists from their suburban ranches.”
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Even Alan Greenspan has to admit what everybody knows: the war on Irak was fouhgt for oil. Well it isn’t all
and the inner values spread with mortal repercussion are well analised
in such spots. But if you wonder what wars are fought for oil, while oil can be still replaced by renewable energies and the technologies for this, drinking water isn’t.
Actualy the resources of dronking water left in the planet as unowned resource for all life thereon are about to get bought by (mainly US) global players and as water is sparse and the coming warfare issue, the issue of stopping endless warfare is
a mater of water anyway. All this without even starting to think about the rich field of methaphors linking
water with ideas about the “feminine”
will this in the end be a chance to unleash finaly a fourth and mighty wawe of feminism to turn around the whole damned machine and bring it to a halt ? This is to spread the idea that people around the world might use global action days in January 2007 to act upon this issue localy + globaly
Ruth Luschnat