Britain’s foreign secretary, David Miliband, rebuking the Bush administration, urged Washington to cease using the phrase "war on terror," which he calls "misleading and mistaken." This term implies a unified, international enemy, when there is none in reality. It encourages war psychosis, fear, and employing the military to deal with problems the West "could not kill its way out of," writes Miliband. But promoting the canard of "terrorism" was the central ideology and raison d’être of the Bush administration, a ship of fools steered by crypto-fascist neoconservatives and Christian evangelical fundamentalists. It failed at everything except one thing: propaganda.
--Eric Margolis