Theater of War
2002
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Nothing will be the same after September 11th. This is the wisdom, offered and widely received since the announcement of the war on a permanent war declared on both an unknown enemy and an abstract noun. But in Theater of War, Lewis Lapham shows with customary intelligence and wit that the recent imperial behavior of the United States government is perfectly consistent with the practice of past administrations. Finding skeptics in the battle against evil has been a rare achievement. For example, as Lapham points “Ted Koppel struck the preferred note of caution on November 2 when introducing the Nightline audience to critics of the American bombing of ‘Some of you, many of you, are not going to like what you hear tonight. You don’t have to listen.’” Unpopular opinions seldom make an appearance on the network news, and during the months since the destruction of the World Trade Center, the voices of dissent have been few and far between. Lewis Lapham is an exception. Almost alone among mainstream political commentators, he has had the courage to question the motive and feasibility, as well as the imperial pretension, of the Bush administration’s infinite crusade against the world’s evildoers.
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Lewis H. Lapham
Author · 34 books
Lewis Henry Lapham was the editor of Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and again from 1983 until 2006. He is the founder and current editor of Lapham's Quarterly, featuring a wide range of famous authors devoted to a single topic in each issue. Lapham has also written numerous books on politics and current affairs. Lapham's Quarterly http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/
