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Who Defended The Country?

- A New Democracy Forum on Authoritarian versus Democratic Approaches to National Defense on 9/11
Af: Elaine Scarry Engelsk Paperback

Who Defended The Country?

- A New Democracy Forum on Authoritarian versus Democratic Approaches to National Defense on 9/11
Af: Elaine Scarry Engelsk Paperback
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Through a minute-by-minute analysis of the phone calls, official reports, responses, and reported actions of passengers on two hijacked flights, United Airlines 93 (which crashed in Pennsylvania) and American Airlines 77 (which crashed into the Pentagon), Elaine Scarry offers a dramatic retelling of their fate and some startling conclusions. Leading off a provocative debate, she asks if the difficulty we had as a country in defending ourselves on September 11 suggests serious flaws in our national security. The need to act in''a matter of minutes'' has been invoked to justify military arrangements increasingly outside the citizenry''s control, yet the only successful defense on September 11 was carried out, after a vote, by the passengers themselves on hijacked Flight 93.

Arguments made at the time of the writing of the Constitution judged that the only plausible way to defend the home ground was to have actions measured against the norms of civilian life: the military had to be''held within a civil frame.'' Scarry asks, have we strayed too far from this model? Does our authoritarian conception of national defense diminish our capacity to protect ourselves? Is it legal? Is it moral? Responding to her argument are nine prominent thinkers and writers from across the political spectrum, including Richard Falk, Ellen Willis, Admiral Eugene Carroll, and Antonia Chayes.
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Through a minute-by-minute analysis of the phone calls, official reports, responses, and reported actions of passengers on two hijacked flights, United Airlines 93 (which crashed in Pennsylvania) and American Airlines 77 (which crashed into the Pentagon), Elaine Scarry offers a dramatic retelling of their fate and some startling conclusions. Leading off a provocative debate, she asks if the difficulty we had as a country in defending ourselves on September 11 suggests serious flaws in our national security. The need to act in''a matter of minutes'' has been invoked to justify military arrangements increasingly outside the citizenry''s control, yet the only successful defense on September 11 was carried out, after a vote, by the passengers themselves on hijacked Flight 93.

Arguments made at the time of the writing of the Constitution judged that the only plausible way to defend the home ground was to have actions measured against the norms of civilian life: the military had to be''held within a civil frame.'' Scarry asks, have we strayed too far from this model? Does our authoritarian conception of national defense diminish our capacity to protect ourselves? Is it legal? Is it moral? Responding to her argument are nine prominent thinkers and writers from across the political spectrum, including Richard Falk, Ellen Willis, Admiral Eugene Carroll, and Antonia Chayes.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 124
ISBN-13: 9780807004579
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 080700457X
Kategori: Internationale relationer
Udg. Dato: 15 maj 2003
Længde: 11mm
Bredde: 150mm
Højde: 232mm
Forlag: Beacon Press
Oplagsdato: 15 maj 2003
Forfatter(e): Elaine Scarry
Forfatter(e) Elaine Scarry

Kategori Internationale relationer

ISBN-13 9780807004579

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 124

Udgave

Længde 11mm

Bredde 150mm

Højde 232mm

Udg. Dato 15 maj 2003

Oplagsdato 15 maj 2003

Forlag Beacon Press

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