ANTH 4730 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Derek Gregory, Al-Qaeda, September 11 Attacks
13 Aug 2016
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This chapter covers the central theme of how american government develops this notion of the other, and its obsession of capturing and dominating it. This development of the other as the enemy was necessary for the bush administration to gain public support for their invasion of afghanistan. This other basically is everything against what the american society upholds, and is considered primitive and hell-bound on destroying the american civilized way of living and therefore a war has to be waged against it. And this other, took the form of the notorious osama bin laden and his organization al-qaeda. However, for this other to be dominated and modernized it needed to be bounded in physical space first. Even though as gregory had highlighted in the previous chapter as well, that al-qaeda is a network of networks with no physical foothold, afghanistan became associated with it, with no legitimate reason.
