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September 03, 2006
The UnAmerican Century
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There is an excellent essay by Deborah Campbell in Adbusters this week on how an over-reliance on military force has seen American soft power--the cultural capital accumulated over the course of a century--melt away very quickly. I remember, growing up in England in the 1960s and 1970s, my parents always spoke of the US with great respect and this obviously rubbed off on me. As I have documented on this blog before, this was a sentiment quite common in postwar Europe with the Marshall Plan still fresh in people's minds. The goodwill started to dissipate with the Vietnam war and this gained momentum with a succession of imperialist (and sometimes subversive) foreign policies since. What little goodwill remained coming into the 21st century, Dubya and his neo-con puppeteers (a.k.a The Project for the New American Century (PNAC)) have completed obliterated in one foul swoop with their so-called 'war on terror'. Now, as Campbell notes, a recent international poll by the Pew Research Center shows that the US is now viewed by most of the world as the number one threat to global security.
Posted by jeremy at September 3, 2006 12:23 PM
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