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In this essay, I apply the theory of cultural pragmatics to the sequence for events from the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, through the American invasion of Afghanistan to the still ongoing lraq war. I analyze the Afghanistan invasion as a performative success, an event that was closely keyed to trauma of September 11th and whose limlted script created a fusion between American audiences and the performance of war. The performative challenge for the lraq war that followed emerged precisely from the this project not being able to so easily connect to September 11th. I suggest that it was in order to so sdapt the war script to be performatively effect that the Bush administatin's Infamous public justifications for invading lraq were invented: most importantly, the idea that lraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. I analyze the actual invasion and its immediate and longer term aftermath in terms of the challenges they posed to effective performance, and demonstrate how the defusion of these elements made it very difficult for the invasion to succeed in a legltimate way.

Power and Performance : The "War on Terror" between the Sacred and the Profane