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...believe that it is crucial for all of us to examine critically our motives for fighting a general war against what has become encapsulated in the buzzword “terrorism.” Whatever terrorism is, it is no more monolithic than our old enemy, “communism...
...before. Antisemitism was the common coin of Europe from the end of the 19th century to the end of World War II, reaching from France in the west, through Germany and Central Europe, to Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Hannah Arendt identified antisemitism as the common denominator of fascism and communism, but it also inspired many nationalist parties, until Hitler channeled its energy to consolidate the Third Reich. The use of the Jews as a political target was symptomatic of a fear of democracy in all its aspectsindividual rights, a competitive economy, and the freedoms of an open society. Because antisemitism...
...phrase. No matter; most of us who got assigned him in college never made it through either. Bush made the essential point: The Enemy is not psychotic but cunning, possessing not an erratic temper but a steely ideology and that it was evil. By invoking fascism and totalitarianism (read: Communism), he linked arms with The Greatest Generation and put himself in the continuum of leaders like F.D.R. and Churchill. But F.D.R. and Churchill had clearer military objectives than this President who, as he said, faces a more elusive enemy. The speech was really more Truman 1948 than FDR 1941. Bush...
...writer interfering. Gornick uses George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant,” as an example of the importance of narrative voice. In life, Orwell was often an ugly and brutish man, falling prey to his own bitter insecurities, sexism, rabid anti-communism and other flaws. But in “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell adopts the persona of “the involuntary truth speaker, the one who implicates himself not because he wants to but because he has no choice.” He tells the story as the man torn...
...phrase. No matter; most of us who got assigned him in college never made it through either. Bush made the essential point: The Enemy is not psychotic but cunning, possessing not an erratic temper but a steely ideology and that it was evil. By invoking fascism and totalitarianism (read: Communism), he linked arms with The Greatest Generation and put himself in the continuum of leaders like F.D.R. and Churchill. But F.D.R. and Churchill had clearer military objectives than this President who, as he said, faces a more elusive enemy. The speech was really more Truman 1948 than FDR 1941. Bush...