"It has been a chronic symptom of an inward-looking political culture, where campaigns to defend democracy and morality abroad serve as little more than extensions or projections of the struggle to define these values at home."MacDougall's "Red, Brown, and Yellow Perils: Images of the American Enemy in the 1940s and 1950s"
So... I'd like to extrapolate on inward-looking political culture, but I have no time for anything but one question for a later day. This struggle to define democracy and morality in the United States is easy to see in the past decade. Could it have contributed to our involvement in the Middle East?
