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The Word War
Whatever happened to the “War on Terror”?
Winning back the admiration and allegiance of people around the world
will require more than sending Karen Hughes to Cairo and Karl Rove to
Hollywood. It will mean demonstrating to people in far-flung countries
that America is working to improve their lives and that it believes
their future is inextricably linked to ours. It will mean seeing a
dictator such as Pakistan’s General Pervez Musharraf as an opponent of
America’s work, not an ally. Most importantly, it will require a new
approach to our present conflict: an understanding that we won’t be
successful until we stop arguing about renaming the War on Terror and
start redefining it. The “terror” we should be confronting is not just
that which we face from terrorism, but the terror they face from
despair. And battling that terror will require every weapon America has
in its arsenal for this new kind of war. 
Henry A Wallace after he lost to Harry Truman in 1948 sent Truman a note saying " The destiny and salvation of the United States is to serve the world---not to dominate it"
Dec 13, 2007, 9:42 PMI thought is "War of Terror."
Dec 14, 2007, 4:34 AM"In the age of nuclear weapons, either we talk to each other or we all die!"
The "War on Terror," I agree makes a good "bumper sticker."
American foreign policy has followed a path of "Killing Hope" (US Military and CIA Interventions since WW2). William Blum
And that's only from WW2
Save the world from, American Benevolence!
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NIce work, Andrei.
Jan 9, 2008, 4:42 PMPost a Comment
Andrei Cherny is president of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
Events
Democracy, Brennan Center Co-Host Money-in-Politics Event
On May 7, the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York City-based public policy institute, hosted a panel discussion co-sponsored by Democracy and Demos on money in politics, the subject of Democracy’s centerpiece symposium in the Winter 2013 issue.
News
Washington Post Interviews Kleiman on Crime Policy
In a March 28 post in The Washington Post’s Wonkblog, Dylan Matthews interviewed UCLA professor Mark Kleiman about his essay, “Smart on Crime,” in the current issue of Democracy.
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Klein Cites Democracy Essay on Defense Spending
In his Bloomberg View column on February 13, Ezra Klein discussed the politics of military spending and highlighted a number of quotes from former Representative Barney Frank’s feature contribution to Democracy’s Winter 2013 issue.
