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June 2007 Issue [Article]

11. The National Character

From the Forum “Undoing Bush”

The undoing of the American character has a long history. It took more than half a century from a summer’s day in August, when the United States used the first weapon of mass destruction, to the lies the Bush Administration used to cover its invasion of Iraq. Had there not been that horrific day at Hiroshima, and had the fear generated by that day not remained in the American consciousness, passed on from generation to generation, the Senate might not have voted Bush the power to invade a sovereign nation. But the World…

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is a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. His new book, The Politics of Heaven: America in Fearful Times (W. W. Norton), will be published in August.

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