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 |
Voices In the Wilderness A Web-based Literary Journal (Voices Home) (ubidubium.net) |
After the Fall of the Towers |