America's Less-Friendly Melting Pot

(2002 August 14)

It has been said that America is the great melting pot, drawing upon the cultures of the world to forge its own unique society. In middle school songs are sung of how we borrow a little bit of everything from just about everyone. Perhaps nothing has made this clearer than the actions of the Bush administration during the so-called "war on terror".
   
Political tactic Borrowed from
Jingoism and drum-beating Victorian England
Overweening military overconfidence Third Republic France
Reduction of legislature to rubber-stamp status Soviet Russia
Suspension of duly-appointed judiciary Fascist Germany
Strategy of engaging everyone, everywhere Tojo-ruled Japan
"Disappearing" of inconvenient citizens Junta-ruled Argentina

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