The “War On Terror”

 It [war] eats up the surplus goods, and helps preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchcal society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair…The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is…to keep the [hierarchical] structure of society intact…
– George Orwell in 1984

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THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts.