Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers!: Demonization and the End of Civil Debate in American PoliticsNYU Press, 2005 - Всего страниц: 228 The level of vitriol in American politics has been rising with no end in sight. Terms like “evildoer,” “war on terror,” and “axis of evil” have become commonplace in our discussion of international politics. What ever happened to civil debate? Where has all this moralizing come from? And what harm has this new level of attack caused to democracy in America? |
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... Bush for finding a way to avoid combat in a war many of them loathed, and themselves avoided, at the time. Why attack Kerry for his war record (and later repudiation of the war) and Bush for his choice to avoid combat? Why, indeed, did ...
... Bush, the political motivations were clear. Kerry was attractive to Democrats precisely because he was decorated in Vietnam and therefore able, it was thought, to withstand the “weak on defense” attacks sure to come from Republicans ...
... Bush's claim? During most of the 1980s Hussein was a quiet ally of the Reagan-Bush administration, instigating and then fighting a brutal war against Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran, then believed to be our most serious (noncommunist) foe. It ...
... Bush to build support for the second Gulf War), the Kurds in northern Iraq. It took Hussein's invasion of the oil-rich sheikhdom of Kuwait, however, for him to become the moral equivalent of perhaps the most reviled person in history. If ...
... Bush's articulation of an “axis of evil” is one example, but the history of threat and warfare is replete with others. Recall, for example, Ayatollah Khomeini's characterization back in 1979 of America as “the Great Satan.” Always ...
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Americas Moral Paradox | 44 |
4 The Deep Divide and the Most Vulnerable | 64 |
Part II
Demonization and Wars Seeking the Enemy | 85 |
6 Terror Evil and the New Cold War | 102 |
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Terror Wars and Culture Wars | 129 |
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Preserve the Environment Become an Environmental Sport | 149 |
Conclusion | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Index | 221 |
About the Authors | 228 |
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