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Article: Rout of the new evil empire.(alliance of citizen activists, public-health officials and trial lawyers beat the tobacco industry)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 6, 1999
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EVER since the collapse of communism, America has been casting around for a new enemy. Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic gamely volunteered for the role. But no great nation can define itself against such tinpot figures. Some Republicans want to demonise China. But American business is not willing to kiss goodbye to a billion potential customers. As for Pat Buchanan's idea of going the whole hog and demonising all foreigners, it is rapidly turning him from a merely marginal figure into an irrelevance.
The problem is that these days Americans are keener on finding their evil empires at home than abroad. Foreign countries seldom impinge on people's attention, ...