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Blueprint for an American Empire

By Greg Grandin, AlterNet
Posted on September 27, 2006, Printed on September 27, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/story/41972/

Editor's note: This is an edited excerpt from Greg Grandin's new book, "Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism."

For many of the policy and opinion makers who seized on 9/11 to promote their vision of an imperial America, placing the nation on a permanent war footing was as much a form of domestic collective therapy as it was an international crusade to reshape the world. “Nothing less than the soul of this country is at stake,” Norman Podhoretz wrote a month after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. “Nothing less than an unambiguous victory will save us from yet another disappointment in ourselves and another despairing disillusion with our leaders.” The attacks provided a chance for Americans who “crave ‘a new birth’ of the confidence we used to have in ourselves and in ‘America the Beautiful.’” Such desires to overcome the factionalism and disenchantment that had plagued America since the 1960s were not confined to the political right, as many liberals likewise hungered for a renewed sense of national purpose.

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Posted on September 27, 2006 in News Elsewhere by Anayansi