The terror within is always real. While the terror without is often manufactured, to marshal support for wars that deceive the masses at home and advance the interests of elites abroad. The marching orders of empire, history clearly reveals, never benefit the children thrown into its fires. "The poorest among us are the most disposable" is as quintessential an American slogan as any, and the indigent margins of Detroit and its outer enclaves represent that.

XREF: Echoes the classic 'wag the dog' critique of manufactured consent for war, linking to Chomsky-Lippmann propaganda theory.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 205