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I wonder if the Americans "war on X"-phrase washed out the word "war". Is it still as powerful as it should be?
by Krasnol 5y ago
I wonder if the Americans "war on X"-phrase washed out the word "war". Is it still as powerful as it should be?
- tzfld 5y agoAs empty as "renewable revolution" or "space race"
- JasonFruit 5y agoI think you're onto something there. We've come to think of war — endless war — as a normal part of life in the US. Even our actual wars are now the War on Terror, not the war in Afghanistan or Iraq. We may defeat one enemy (or more likely declare victory and ditch), but there's no expectation that we'll defeat Terror, or Obesity, or Hate.
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- phendrenad2 5y agoIt would be hard to tell, since it goes back over 100 years: https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/moral.html https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/moral.html