Watch Prince EA’s spoken word, “Why I love terrorists”
Evaluate his use of Aristotelian appeals in this discourse.
Finish up the other notes/examples of the front of the handout.
The Rhetoric of the Enemy: Osama bin Laden’s open letter to America (November, 2002)
- Watch the CNN special report on Osama bin Laden (Note: this coverage is from 1997, four years before 9-11-2001)
- What is most interesting, surprising, or disturbing about “meeting” Bin Laden in this way?
INDIVIDUALLY: Read and annotate (critically, as a piece of rhetoric!) Osama bin Laden's "Open Letter to America".
If you finish the reading early, do additional research on US Foreign Policy in the Middle East:
Wikipedia articles of note
US Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Criticism of U.S. Foreign Policy