Comments on: It’s Always About Authoritarianism http://www.revivingliberalism.com/it%e2%80%99s-always-about-authoritarianism/2010/01/ The Home of Rootstock Liberalism Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:17:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Alex http://www.revivingliberalism.com/it%e2%80%99s-always-about-authoritarianism/2010/01/comment-page-1/#comment-842 Alex Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:26:26 +0000 http://www.revivingliberalism.com/?p=888#comment-842 "The right-wing wants terrorists to be classified as war criminals in order to reinforce the principle that anti-terrorist activity is part of a "war on terror"." And al qaeda itself wants to be seen as war criminals, as it's a propaganda coup if you're at war and taken that seriously by the greatest military superpower of all time. Glenn Greenwald is very good on this: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/12/31/reid/index.html “The right-wing wants terrorists to be classified as war criminals in order to reinforce the principle that anti-terrorist activity is part of a “war on terror”.”

And al qaeda itself wants to be seen as war criminals, as it’s a propaganda coup if you’re at war and taken that seriously by the greatest military superpower of all time.

Glenn Greenwald is very good on this:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/12/31/reid/index.html

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