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Article: September 11 and America's War on Terrorism: a new manifest destiny?(offers historical link between major shifts in US foreign policies during times of international war and disruption of domestic policies regarding native peoples; focuses on War on Terrorism)
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- The American Indian Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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The tragic events of September 11 have unified most Americans against a new world of international terrorism. The psychological shock of America discovering its vulnerability began a period of intense national introspection, soul-searching, and profound change to our self-perceptions--both positive and negative. To many Americans, this period of reflection ignited a spirited revival of the nation's virtual state religion--one belief combining the sacred and secular into a Christian sense of mission with patriotism. A nineteenth-century variant of this state religion was America's divine "manifest destiny" to spread democracy and true civilization by territorial expansion ...
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Article: Manifest Destiny
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