Terror War Mumbo Jumbo

Philip Bobbitt argues most ideas about 21st-century terrorism are mistaken, and that "The wars against terror" comprise efforts against three dangers that threaten the legitimacy of the State: 1) "global, networked terrorists"; 2) "the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction"; and 3) catastrophes natural and "nonnatural." As a historian, Bobbitt understands the contemporary problem of terrorism as part of "the transition from nation states to market states." (borrowed from Wikipedia @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_and_Consent:_the_Wars_for_the_Twenty-first_Century)

The legitimacy of the state is indeed threatened by several dangers, including the following:

• States are no longer concerned (if they ever were) about the welfare of their citizens;
• The ruling classes have hijacked the powers of states for their own benefit; and
• The relentless INVENTED drive to convert nation states to market states requires that state-sponsored violence be employed against anyone or anything that gets in the way of the conversion process.

Strictly speaking, the "wars against terror" are being fought against people who are what we used to be: people who love God, who love their countries, who love their traditions, and who want to live their lives in the manner they see fit. People who do not want to bow down to a single global authority of any kind.