The Motivational Force Behind the War - Media Monitors Network (MMN)

Lest we all forget; this war on terrorism, thoroughly stupid concept, to begin with, is, at its core, religious in nature.

We may not want to believe that, but there is too much evidence of it. We discount the importance of over-the-top- religious fervor that is all in this "war," on both sides, at our own peril.

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"We need to come out of thinking in the box of oil & gas pipelines and a war on terror. We need to try and understand the real motivation behind the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, otherwise we are doomed for a war of unimaginable magnitude in the near future. It is time now to go beyond the HOW aspect of 9/11 to the WHY 9/11 question.'


'The danger of religious war is real. And religious war follows less from conscious intentions of warriors than from the beliefs that inspire them. Boykin makes the question urgent: What kind of God does this General. and the nation he serves, believe in?'
-- James Carroll, Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War (the American Empire Project) [72]
On September 16, 2001, BBC and other global media outlets reported Bush's declaration of a crusade, Osama's first direct denial[73] of any involvement in the 9/11 attack and Dick Cheney's threat that any state harboring terrorists would face the 'full wrath' of American military might.[74] "