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"maff" |
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09 Jul 2005 03:36:01 PM |
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OT: The specter of two 'isms' |
The specter of two 'isms'
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GG09Aa05.html
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - With US citizens marking their annual celebration of
patriotism on July 4, they might do well to also ponder the specter of
two other "isms" - nationalism and militarism - that threaten the
country's durability and strength.
Both have been addressed by two important books published over the past
year. America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism, by
Financial Times columnist Anatol Lieven, warns that the US polity is
turning its back on the civic patriotism of the "American creed" of
liberty, the rule of law and political egalitarianism in favor of an
"American antithesis", a radical and vengeful nationalism that recalls
the worst tendencies and mistakes of Germany just before World War I.
Militarism
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/6c3f9544f6d0d907
Nationalism
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/37c000c6962672d9
Anatol Lieven
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/5cd9709e5d534e82
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: OT: The specter of two 'isms' |
10 Jul 2005 02:55:48 AM |
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In article <1120941361.015341.291010@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote:
The specter of two 'isms'
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GG09Aa05.html
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - With US citizens marking their annual celebration of
patriotism on July 4, they might do well to also ponder the specter of
two other "isms" - nationalism and militarism - that threaten the
country's durability and strength.
Both have been addressed by two important books published over the past
year. America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism, by
Financial Times columnist Anatol Lieven, warns that the US polity is
turning its back on the civic patriotism of the "American creed" of
liberty, the rule of law and political egalitarianism in favor of an
"American antithesis", a radical and vengeful nationalism that recalls
the worst tendencies and mistakes of Germany just before World War I.
Add sectarianism to militarism and nationalism and you have a truly
'explosive' mix.
Militarism
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/6c3f9544f6d0d907
Nationalism
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/37c000c6962672d9
Anatol Lieven
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/5cd9709e5d534e82
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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