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Discourse on Terrorism. Historical Significance Sixty-three years ago,
Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered ...
... human experience, including arenas such as politics, social discourse, psychology,
philosophy, military strategy, and history, to name a few. Terrorism is also ...
... But state-centric "military security" orthodoxy dominates the discourse and active ...
Despite using phrases like "sexual terrorism" (Dorothy Roberts) as a much ...
... Some believe now that the terrorism threat is exaggerated in order to unite the
country behind the war on terror. ... (Duke) The effects of enemy discourse aim to ...
... threats from cyberspace, it is worth noting that the discourse on cyberterrorism
is ... with no outside connection, as a form of prevention of cyber terrorism. ...
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Historical Significance Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun
almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy
and defeat, and had sunk more than four hundred British ships in their
convoys between England and America for food and war materials. At
that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most
Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war.
Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage
Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on
Germany, which had not yet attacked us. It was a dicey thing. We had
few allies. France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France
quickly aligned itself with its German occupiers. Germany was
certainly not an ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a
Thousand-Year Reich in Europe. Japan was not an ally, as it was well
on its way to owning and controlling all of Asia. Together, Japan and
Germany had long-range plans of invading Canada and Mexico, as
launching pads to get into the United States over our Northern and
southern borders, after they finished gaining control of Asia and
Europe. America's only allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland,
Canada, Australia, and Russia. That was about it. All of Europe, from
Norway to Italy, except Russia in the East, was already under the Nazi
heel. America was certainly not prepared for war. America had
drastically downgraded most of its military forces after W.W.I and
throughout the depression, so that at the outbreak of WW2, army units
were training with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars
with "tank" painted on the doors because they didn't have real tanks.
And a huge chunk of our navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl
Harbor.
Britain...
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