Terrorism as auto-immune war
Posted by Monkey on June 9, 2009
The Yorkshire Ranter has a review of David Kilcullen’s The Accidental Guerrilla, and suggests that the goal of terrorism is to provoke something analogous to an auto-immune response: “Specifically, auto-immune war is a strategy, but its tactical implementation is the creation of false positive responses. Security obsession gums up the economy with inefficiencies. Terrorism terrorises the public; security theatre keeps them that way. As Kilcullen points out, every day, millions of travellers are systematically reminded of terrorism by government security precautions. Profiling measures subject entire communities to indignity and waste endless hours of police time. Vast sums of money are spent on counterproductive equipment programs and unlikely techno-fixes. National identity cards and monster databases are the specific symptoms of this pathology in the UK, just as idiotic militarism is in the US.”
Via Boing Boing.
