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I want to trace in this chapter how the rhetoric of war developed in the USA and the UK in the wake of 9/11 and how these helped to shape particular global landscapes of terror and local fears and anxieties. In the USA, there was no need to remind people of the destruction caused by the 9/11 attacks and connections had been made in the public mind between the terrorism of Al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. But in the UK, where there was more scepticism about these connections, Blair had to remind people of their ‘moral fibre’ and their feelings immediately after 9/11 to prepare them for the forthcoming war in Iraq. As Hugo Young put it, in the USA at least, ‘the moral view, in other words, united a nation without needing to be spelt out’. Things were different in Europe.
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© 2013 Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
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Seidler, V.J. (2013). Rhetorics of War. In: Remembering 9/11. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137017697_14
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