My Op-Ed: Lifton says the United States’ sense of omnipotence - TopicsExpress



          

My Op-Ed: Lifton says the United States’ sense of omnipotence and invulnerability was completely smashed in pieces by the September 11 attacks. The al-Qaeda led demolition of the Twin Towers led Americans to “a determination to restore, or even extend, the boundaries of a superpower-dominated world.” Sufferers of “superpower syndrome” internalise the belief that the superpower (the state) has a right to revenge the humiliation caused by terrorists, and because of “its unique moral standing, a duty to dictate terms of existence to the rest of the world.”
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:57:43 +0000

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