The barbarians of Fallujah  

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Carr, Matt

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Race & Class vol. 50 no. 1 (Jul. 2008), page 21-36.
Topik: clash of civilisations; Iraq occupation; US military; ‘war on terror’; al-Zarqawi
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The ‘global war on terror’ is often represented as a struggle between incompatible opposites, of good versus evil, terror versus democracy and civilisation versus barbarism. The deployment of such dichotomies was part of the background to the onslaught on Fallujah in 2004, serving to provide the US military with the appearance of moral legitimacy, as it turned the city to rubble in order to ‘save’ it. In the US media, the arrogant assumption that the US is civilisationally superior both to the ‘barbarians’ its armies were fi ghting in the city and to the broader mass of the Iraqi population, was a recurring theme among neoconservative and pro-war liberal ideologues. Yet, with the city’s destruction presented as a moral imperative on behalf of civilised values, there has been scant examination of the allegations that US forces were guilty of war crimes. Moreover, the attack on Fallujah shows that civilisation and barbarism are not diametrically opposed concepts in a ‘global war on terror’ which continues to cause more death and destruction than the violence it is supposedly intended to eliminate.

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