Religions > Atheism > OT: Latest horror could destroy President of divided nation
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OT: Latest horror could destroy President of divided nation |
Latest horror could destroy President of divided nation
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=533087
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
19 June 2004
Is this the horror that will finally undo George Bush's presidency?
First Nicholas Berg, now Paul Johnson: in two months and in two
different countries, two US civilians have been kidnapped and beheaded
by their al-Qa'ida-affiliated captors, becoming not only pawns in a
deadly geopolitical game but also symbols of the complicated feelings
of revulsion unleashed by the Bush administration's "war on terror".
It is hard not to think back to earlier acts of defiance against the
might of the United States and wonder if we are not seeing a parallel
erosion of presidential authority: the steady drip-drip of casualty
figures from Vietnam that proved the undoing of Lyndon Johnson's
presidency in 1968, or the corrosive effect of the Iran hostage crisis
on Jimmy Carter 12 years later.
Andrew Gumbel
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