The Universal Jurisdiction of the Fear:Orientalism, Imperialism and International Law http://alainet.org/active/36919&lang=es

Concurrently, the self-declared cultural superiority of the imperialist nation is structured around the arguments of an inevitable clash of civilizations. Thus, the involved actors are conditioned to seek other’s destruction in an endless struggle. The racist construction of this argument impedes the conception of peace, perceiving it as an unattainable compromise where mutual respect and multicultural coexistence are unfeasible.   

The only viable logic for the Western imperial project is the one which allows the flow of a war economy, permitting accumulation of wealth in the colonial countries by the reconstruction (ironically called post-conflict rebuilding) of occupied states. To this, add the looting of natural resources and the necessary governmental investment in non-productive sectors of the economy in order to preserve this unequal system of exploitation. A military solution for an economic problem… And the under-accumulation crisis is postponed at the imperial center.