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Originally Posted by Coatsy
None taken, I feel this terrorist threat is nothing more than propaganda and scare tactics to drum up support for our foreign policies in the middle east.
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Anyone with half a brain can seperate what you see on TV; the media's role in perpetuating fear in the masses - in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s the american populace was trained to be afraid of "the commies". Everyone knows this.
The danger is believing that it is 100% "wag the dog". It is obvious that there does exist numbers of people out there who are driven by a dogma that is centred on violence against all non-muslims. Yes, media has in interesting in exaggerating the threat because it draws more eyeballs and means more advertising $$$. The government has an interest to overplay the threat because of winning domestic approval for controversial foreign policy.
However - simply because domestic media sources and goverments may sensationalize and exaggerate the scope of the 'threat', to dispute the existence of a threat - regardless of size or severity - is denial.