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Will S.
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Sunday, June 06, 2004
03:13:49
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 Subject: American political crusades expressed as "war"
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In a recent post, I discussed with another participant how various political crusades in America have been expressed in religious terms, but recently I was chatting with a friend about how some non-military struggles in America have borrowed the language of war, especially in their titles: "The War on Drugs", "The War on Poverty", to name two examples, but I can't think of many others expressed as explicitly as that (I'm not American, and thus don't have as intimate a knowledge of American history and politics as I'm sure most American posters here do). What other domestic political, social and moral crusades, if any, have been particularly expressed in war terms?
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Will S.
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Sunday, June 06, 2004
03:14:31
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I'm also wondering why this sort of language has been popular - is it due, in large part, to the fact that the U.S. was born out of a war, grew larger in size partly through wars of conquest, and solved its biggest political crisis (over slavery) by means of war? Are their other factors? How does this relate to political crusades being expressed in religious terms?
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