RobertBuzzanco-TheStruggleForAmerica-NunnMcginty(2019)

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 547 transactions but the omnipresent fees for canceled checks, late payments, AT ...

548 ChaPter^10 George W. Bush–who had won a bizarre election in 2000 that was finally decided by the Supreme Court even though h ...

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 549 So, U.S. actions–support of Israel, opposition to Arab nationalism, support- ...

550 ChaPter^10 exist, while Israel agreed to return Sinai to Egypt and to negotiate Palestinian independence and promised to ret ...

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 551 Communist, and had won a power struggle against another, but more moder- ate ...

552 ChaPter^10 zers, Huey helicopters, and bombs to Saddam. American military and CIA officials offered advice to the Iraqis on ...

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 553 from its country into Iraqi oil fields and, in essence, steal Iraq’s oil. As ...

554 ChaPter^10 No matter the reasons, the Iraqis were clearly in American crosshairs throughout the last months of 1990, and in ...

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 555 dered. At that point, rather than marching on to Baghdad to overthrow the go ...

556 ChaPter^10 impeachment, he ordered American planes to attack a “terrorist target” in Sudan that turned out to be a pharmaceu ...

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 557 especially in the mountainous areas along the Pakistani border. At the same ...

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559 chaP ter 11 Bush and Obama, Wars and Economy: Power and People in an Age of Limits and Loss O n September 11th, 2001, the pl ...

560 ChaPter^11 economy has suffered staggering deficits and the American people are losing homes and jobs at frightening rates. ...

Bush and Obama, Wars and Economy: Power and People in an Age of Limits and Loss 561 Rumsfeld replied, however, “there aren’t any ...

562 ChaPter^11 Saddam fled on April 9th, 2003. The Iraqis, who had suffered under his cru- elty for decades, ran into the street ...

Bush and Obama, Wars and Economy: Power and People in an Age of Limits and Loss 563 nearby], or political assassinations as thei ...

564 ChaPter^11 the rhetoric of 20th Century Cold War presidents, Bush talked of an “Axis of Evil,” a coalition of terrorist stat ...

Bush and Obama, Wars and Economy: Power and People in an Age of Limits and Loss 565 One year after the passing of the Patriot Ac ...

566 ChaPter^11 Americans being bombarded by constant talk of terrorism, and showed itself entirely unprepared to deal with the o ...