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Civilization's Reluctant Warrior: America and the War on Terror |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Alan W. Dowd |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 4,346 Words, 26,323 Characters |
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I have lived through a period when one looked forward, as we do now, with anxiety and uncertainty to what would happen in the future," Winston Churchill sighed in February 1934, reflecting on the Great War and contemplating an even greater war. "Suddenly something did happen--tremendous, swift, overpowering, irresistible." Sixty-eight winters later, with the carnage of September 11 behind us and the chaos of a strange new war ahead of us, we can relate well to Churchill's feelings of uncertainty and angst.
After being saturated with news and images about the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, our information-hungry society has been left with the very opposite when it comes to the early counterstrikes of this war on terror. And we can expect more of the same as the war pro...
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...etary Donald Rumsfeld statement, September 12 and 25, 2001, www.defenselink.mil. U.S. State Department, Overview of State Sponsored Terrorism, April 2001, www.state.gov. Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars, Harper-Collins, New York, 1992. Woodrow Wilson, "Address Before Congress, April 2, 1917," Major Problems in American Foreign Policy Volume 2: Since 1914, D.C. Heath, Lexington, 1989.
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