By John Rennie Short (auth.)
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These are not so much accidental as central to American Empire’s self-portrayal. Populations indifferent or unappreciative of US invasions are represented as people joyful at liberation, and ordinary soldiers are recast as heroines and heroes: the banal reality of imperial engagement, the mistakes, brutality, death and destruction, the confusion, the fog of war, and the murkiness of military engagement all scrubbed of ambiguity and replayed as US heroism triumphing over the shadow of evil. From the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan a common image used and employed is the mutilated US soldier, the amputee bravely struggling on.
In a world of uncertainty and change Empire secures order. The fact of massive military power allows the United States to maintain global connectivity, extend the flattening space of economic globalization, protect US interests, and be a force of good in the face of obvious evil. If the US abdicates Empire, a power vacuum is created that will be filled by the strong and the bad. Evil will flourish. We will become bystanders to genocide, impotent in the face of evil. The argument is THE WAR ON TERROR AND THE INVASION OF IRAQ 55 not without merit.
In 2003 Rice spoke of a smoking gun turning into a mushroom cloud. Alternative interpretations from the CIA were stifled. Reporters, such as The New York Times’ Judith Miller, talked about the dubious evidence of weapons of mass destruction. The neoconservative establishment in Washington feted Chalabi. 23 The CIA director George Tenet, after some resistance, also drank the administration’s Kool Aid. The evidence was still weak. ” In February 2003, with Tenet sitting behind him in full camera view, the most popular member of the Bush cabinet, Colin Powell, made the claim in the United Nations that Iraq had chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction.