Word: saviorism
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...general is battling powerful forces here, for he has been cast as a savior by a public that longs for shiny heroes. "It's sort of overwhelming," he says, blinking in the limelight. "I didn't have a sense of how completely spontaneous it would be." His incandescent televised briefing after the liberation of Kuwait sent a powerful message: here at last was a leader who was blunt, not glib; passionate, not packaged, with the carriage of a man of courage and principle. Even then, it was hard to imagine that he would willingly trade the high challenges...
George Bush may be the savior of Kuwait, but in 1992 the voters will want to know what he is doing to save America. One early promise was to be "the education President," but his marks for that endeavor have been decidedly mixed. The President has apparently been doing his homework. Last week, striving to fulfill his promise to launch a major domestic initiative, he presented an ambitious national plan called "America 2000: An Education Strategy" to improve troubled U.S. elementary and secondary schools. Bush spoke of bringing about "a revolution in American education." The goal is lofty enough...
...meticulous documenting of atrocities and the punishment of Iraqis who carried out their superiors' most unconscionable orders would serve a deterrent purpose and underscore the justice of the allied cause. "The idea of a trial would be to show the Arabs that Saddam Hussein is not the great savior," says Howard Levie, professor emeritus of law at St. Louis University. At the very least, a prosecution would hold Saddam and his regime up to formal international scrutiny for deeds that much of the world has already judged to be barbaric...
BUSH'S RECENT HINT of a new Pax Americana that would begin after Saddam Hussein's defeat raises unsettling images of John Winthrop's ideal of America as a "city on a hill," John Foster Dulles's notion of America as savior or even the 19th century vision of America's "manifest destiny...
Morales is charged with allowing the game's operators to use first St. Mark's parish in Gary, then Nativity of Our Savior in Portage, as a front to avoid the scrutiny of local authorities. Flyers went out to four states advertising the high-pot Nativity bingo...