You know, I laid out a doctrine -- you just got to know it still stands -- it said, either you're with us, either you love freedom and with nations which embrace freedom, or you're with the enemy. There's no in-between. And the doctrine still stands.
I've often spoken to you about good and evil, and this has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world, and between the two of them there can be no compromise. Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere. Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right. This nation must continue to speak out for justice and truth. We must always be willing to act in their defense—and to advance the cause of peace.
Tony Blair, Jose Maria Aznar, George Bush and Jose Manual Durao Barroso during a press conference about Iraq, March 16, 2003.
Good versus evil rhetoric is an age-old propaganda technique used to create support for an imperialistic agenda. The power elite use for example polarization to create an atmosphere of ideological extremes in which their ideology is of course the only right one. Dead wrong. How many innocent people have already died due to aggressive Anglo-American invasions related to geopolitics and power since World War II? And how much of the world's export of military equipment, including weapons of mass destruction and biological weapons, is done by the Anglo-American power elite and their western allies? Some of them are filthy rich because of it.
The terrorist attacks of 11 September left Americans with a myriad of powerful emotions - anxiety, fear, sorrow, despair, and incandescent rage. Among these emotions, scholars argue that fear represents the common baseline for comprehending the complex aftermath of 9/11... That fear was caused by extraordinary images of indiscriminate violence - planes crashing into buildings, skyscrapers in flames, men and women leaping to their deaths, and landmark structures collapsing to the ground as panicked crowds ran for safety amid a whirlwind of dust and debris. This vivid imagery demonstrated that the point of terrorism is fear. And fear, in turn, would define the very fabric of subsequent responses.
Fear was profitably shot into the national bloodstream, how the country—gripped by terror fantasies—was locked down, and how a brain-dead Washington elite fiddled (and profited) while America quietly burned.
Fear is a political tool in the hands of the power elite. Their propaganda experts are very good at creating a culture of fear in order to further an agenda. Examples are Red Scare and McCarthyism during the Cold War. This gave the power elite the possibility to spend massive amounts of taxpayer money on their intelligence and military projects. Today we experience the same old Russophobia and Sinophobia again with the new Cold War. The age-old tactics of false flags and terrorism still work with the countless ignorants. The 9/11 attacks gave way for the war on terror after another massive war propaganda campaign full of good versus evil rhetoric.
Only if we don't consider ourselves better than others will we be exceptional human-beings.
The data is piling up to confirm that we're Number One, but in exactly the way we don't want to be—at the bottom.
The truth is that the United States is a military and intelligence empire which spies on the whole world. This consumes an incredible amount of money which rests on the shoulders of American taxpayers. All that money is not spent on for example health care, education or well being. This is visible in comparison with other so-called OECD countries which spend their money differently.
People who believe they are special and do not have to conform to the laws installed for the benefit of all are of course very dangerous. Such people place themselves above the law. Exceptionalism is a driving force of imperialism. Exceptionalism is an illusion presented by the power elite in order to create the support of the ignorant people for their imperial agenda.
The Holocaust did not start with the gas chambers and the Rwandan genocide did not start with the slayings. It started with the dehumanization of a specific group of persons.
Just like exceptionalism, dehumanization is used by the power elite in order to further their imperial agenda. Dehumanization involves the demonization of the enemy. A good recent example is the demonization of Vladimir Putin because he's the leader of Russia which is perceived as a threat to the Anglo-American Empire. With the new Cold War we see the renewed spread of Russophobia via the western media. All this propaganda is meant to foment hatred among the people in the west and beyond. Sociologists and historians often view dehumanization as central to war. This is one of the ways in which the silly sheeple are made to support the aggressive wars of the power elite, which are of course related to geopolitics and power, not to ridiculous nonsense like "spreading democracy" or "making the world safe for democracy" as many deluded people still believe even today.
In all studies, members of higher status groups perceived the ingroup as more human than the outgroup, while members of lower status groups did not assign a privileged human status to the ingroup.
Capozza, Andrighetto, Di Bernardo, Falvo - Does status affect intergroup perceptions of humanity?
The higher in the hierarchy of power, the more dehumanizing people become. Power corrupts. See also Psychopathy.
Tony Blair and George W. Bush walk to a joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 17, 2007, in Washington D.C. Bush and Blair said the U.S.-U.K. alliance in Iraq and cooperation on other global issues won't be diminished once Blair leaves office.
The problem today is not just lying but "immoral morality," doing evil in the name of good.
The pervasive rhetoric of good vs. evil, dark vs. light, civilization vs. barbarism that underpins US policy in the war on terror makes possible both interstate wars in/on Afghanistan and Iraq and the global torture system (manifest in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo) of disappearances, extraordinary renditions, indefinite incarceration without trial, psychological intimidation and abuse of prisoners, and the undermining of civil rights in the US. All in the name of 'freedom'. The articulation of 'we' the US as 'innocent and unsuspecting' erases the history of US actions in the Middle East, its complicity in the imperial origins of most Middle Eastern states and in repeated military and covert political operations, and its support of Israel against the Palestinians (Kolko 1988).
The masters of evil present themselves to the world as something good. Tony Blair once said in an interview at BBC Newsnight, "I believe that weapons of mass destruction are a real evil, yes. I certainly do believe that". The truth is that the Anglo-American Empire contains more weapons of mass destruction than the rest of the world. The Anglo-American power elite are certainly exceptional when it comes to using atomic weapons on innocent civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They carpet-bombed German cities during World War II intended to kill as many innocent German civilians as possible in order to "demoralize" the German population. All their aggressive wars related to energy security and geopolitics since World War II killed countless innocent people around the world. The Gulf War was started with lies. The Iraq War was based on lies. All wars are based on lies because they are fought for power and money, not for love or democracy as many extremely naive people might want to believe. And then we have Pisrael and Saudi Barbaria. All this certainly has made the world a very dangerous place. Terrorism boomed since the so-called war on terror. What a sick soap opera. Etcetera, etcetera. It is one big pile of disgusting filth. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.