Terrorism = War
In "How to Build a Better Democrat" Joe Klein suggests that instead of using the metaphor of war to describe global interactions, we should use the metaphor that the United States is a vaccine. This metaphor highlights the fact that we need to take preventative measures to ensure the future of the country and the world. However, the metaphor hides one major thing...solving the problem. If we simply act as a vaccine and that's it, how do we punish the people that started the problem?
The terrorism = war metaphor highlights the fact that there are soldiers involved that are overseas fighting a real war. However, it hides the fact that the U.S. is acting as a vaccine by using agencies such as the CIA to intercept information in order to squash further terrorist schemes to harm the country.
The terrorism = war metaphor is a metaphor in the fact that it both highlights and hides certain things about war itself, but it can also be looked at as simply describing the activities of the terrorists. War has changed over the years. It used to be that war was an accurate metaphor because it really was war that the country was involved in. There wasn't all of the media and technology that we have today. For instance, today we can do extensive research in seconds, and it's all at the tips of our fingers. Back in the day, they had to wait days or even weeks to get any information from somewhere far away.
Rabbi Moshe Waldoks writes an essay called "Bomb them with butter...." in which he uses the word bomb as a metaphor. He uses the word bomb to mean information. He feels that we should send food, clothing, and luxury items to the Iraqis instead of bombing and killing them. By bombing them with information, we'll prove to them that the U.S. wants to help and the terrorists will become less in number because they will realize that we aren't bad people and we are here to help. This shows that the terrorism = war metaphor hides the fact that we can use soft things to win a war. We can use information, food, and luxuries to win instead of shrapnel, bombs, and guns. It shows that the vaccine we can use to beat the terrorists is the use of information and food. By befriending nations, we can decrease the hatred of the U.S.
The terrorism = war metaphor highlights the fact that there are soldiers involved that are overseas fighting a real war. However, it hides the fact that the U.S. is acting as a vaccine by using agencies such as the CIA to intercept information in order to squash further terrorist schemes to harm the country.
The terrorism = war metaphor is a metaphor in the fact that it both highlights and hides certain things about war itself, but it can also be looked at as simply describing the activities of the terrorists. War has changed over the years. It used to be that war was an accurate metaphor because it really was war that the country was involved in. There wasn't all of the media and technology that we have today. For instance, today we can do extensive research in seconds, and it's all at the tips of our fingers. Back in the day, they had to wait days or even weeks to get any information from somewhere far away.
Rabbi Moshe Waldoks writes an essay called "Bomb them with butter...." in which he uses the word bomb as a metaphor. He uses the word bomb to mean information. He feels that we should send food, clothing, and luxury items to the Iraqis instead of bombing and killing them. By bombing them with information, we'll prove to them that the U.S. wants to help and the terrorists will become less in number because they will realize that we aren't bad people and we are here to help. This shows that the terrorism = war metaphor hides the fact that we can use soft things to win a war. We can use information, food, and luxuries to win instead of shrapnel, bombs, and guns. It shows that the vaccine we can use to beat the terrorists is the use of information and food. By befriending nations, we can decrease the hatred of the U.S.
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