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Elisabella -> RE: Obama on the Arizona law (5/20/2010 8:01:42 AM)
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And here I thought that was what we have called our President for years, regardless of who was in office.
You do realize that "leader of the free world" is code for "we'd be totally justified in bombing the shit out of the USSR" right?
No I don't.
Enlighten me.
This might be a good place to start
The story here is for the most part a familiar one: of the rapid conversion of wartime internationalism into the nationalist globalism of the Cold War and how “between 1947 and 1950 the notion that the United States was ‘the leader of the free world’ began to emerge as the dominant trope to explain America’s hegemonic role in a divided world.” (159) Fousek demonstrates how the thinking of both liberal and conservative internationalists was shaped by an emergent globalism, noting the many ideas and assumptions shared by Henry Luce’s “American Century” and Henry Wallace’s “Century of the Common Man.” In a brief but highly suggestive “visual essay,” he shows how corporate advertising helped create an “iconography of America’s new global supremacy.” (91-103). Like others who have examined the savage civil war that shattered the old New Deal left, Fousek traces the opposition to the new globalism by popular front liberals, left-wing labor leaders and prominent African-Americans, the repressive marginalization of these critics and the triumph of the new “vital center” liberalism of the Cold War. “In the mid-1940s, the CIO and the NAACP both stood for an antimilitarist, anti-colonial, multilaterialist foreign policy based upon international cooperation; by 1950 both organizations supported the main elements of the Truman administration’s foreign policy, which was increasingly militaristic, hegemonic, and unilateralist.”
Or just browse Google for a bit
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