there arethings fundamentally wrong that must be changed in most societies around the globe, including the United States, wewill be reproducing the causes that bring about wars and terrors in the firstplace.We cannot rely on technical instrumentalities likeintelligence systems such as the CIA. For one, they have been the ones that have disseminated terror throughoutthe world in Chile, Brazil, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, and on and on. Neither intelligence nor security ispossible anymore in this globalized world if it is a unilateral process. The United States, not even with its StarWars project (the one of space missile defense), is safe from attacks. It is only mounting anger and lack ofconfidence from people around the world. Why would a country that possesses and that produces the majority ofarms in the world, and that practically and imperially governs the world, be soafraid? Exactly because its aims, as aState, are imperialistic. What blinds most people in the United States fromhaving a real engagement and connection with the issue of terrorism is itsmainstream medias accounts. Edward Saidwrote: For journalists and politicians it was de rigueur to be for Israel, as if that automatically meant beingfor civilization, against the Holocaust, and with the American way of life[15]. Being part of the dominant discourse, andserving U.S. corporate and State interests, the media will almost never make aconnection between acts of terrorism and their causes. The same, of course, can be said of theAmerican State. When asked to considerthe causes of Palestinian terrorism, 1985 Secretary of State George Schultzpounded the table and told the visiting foreign minister, There is noconnection with any cause. Period.[16] This is the vogue around dominant societywhen discussing terrorism, and thereby justifying their own complicity toconflicts waged by their own State. Noteven the slightest effort is made by most journalists or so-calledintellectuals that appear in the media to give any privilege to history, toculture, to people. Terrorism has become a thing that now replaces communism as the evil. In this simplistic polarity of Good vs.Evil, people die. Edward Said (1988)wrote:Todaysdiscourse on terrorism is an altogether more streamlined thing. Its scholarship is yesterdays newspaper ortodays CNN bulletin. Andso with such a high intellectual culture, terrorism is now what replacedcommunism as the alarm that sets out to call people to war. And, as much as communism, it is a termthat universalizes the issue and prohibits any consideration of the specifichistories of war and peace involved. Theidea that, for example, there is one, integrated, international terrorism,annihilates the possibility of mindful and engaged interventions. In the same way that communism functionedin the past, today international terrorism has become a word to name enemy,an enemy without history and that is always something to be fought against,never to be understood. The concept of terrorism is a justification forwar. The term has no other function indominant discourse. It is produced assuch an abstracted and out-of-this-world concept that it can be used by the twoor more parties in a conflict, to insult each other. The Israeli State and the American State andAmerican media will go on and on showing the atrocities and yes, they areatrocities-