Conclusions create the lie of security and truth. The only certainty that remains in this arena of political and academic discourse is that the construction of the self and the other, of state interests and state threats, remains ambiguous.
Lies are never entirely false, truth is never wholly true.
What we construct as reality arises from the play between these seeming opposites. We never arrive at certainty because what we construct will inevitably be challenged by re-ocurring forms of physical violence. We can freeze the mixture of falsehood and truth. That is what we have done by our past association of terrorism and authoritarianism. Our own construction of western civilization, where we define ourselves as fundamentally opposed to religious or secular authoritarianism, has legitimated the fallacy.