With the end of the Cold-War the US struggled to find new bad guys and bogeymen to justify its status as big kid on the block and the suppression of domestic unrest and dissent. Throughout the 80’s the powers that be, the invisible hand, desperately searched for the new paradigm to manufacture: the fear of crazed arabs, hispanic narcotraffikers, the threat of domestic crime, welfare queens. Of course, foreign enemies are always better for the purpose of fear-mongering. The terror war is exactly what the doctor ordered as far as these people are concerned.
- A New War or a New World? by John Judge