The Terror of the Mid-Adine Leadership

Terrorism is one of the kind of dog whistles i feel of our analytic moment where you say oh when brown people and black people do bad things to us we have this kind of moral signifier. We're trained to pick out specific acts of violence and we're trained to sort of like look at those and be like these are particularly troublesome right like these are spectacular. The corporate media repeat them as nauseum on the corporations and it feeds that for some reason because they use them so often. It's a global war against an entire region and called genocidal wars, says Peter Bergen. "They deliberately prolonged this as much as they possibly could before making peace