And what is most curious about this rhetoric is that, though it appeals frequently to 9/11 — arguing that precisely because of that attack we must seal the southern border now — those dots just don't connect as easily as some others. U.S. News & World Report. But there is one other scapegoat in whom some serious people do believe: George W. Bush — not the president of the United States, exactly, but his all-purpose totemic doppelgänger. But given that there are real grounds to fear what France's Islamists might do — and Britain's, and Holland's, and Spain's, and Germany's, and everyone else's; just as important, given that one thing they do or threaten to do is retaliate for whatever they perceive to be an offense — the felt public need for flight into some other explanation makes psychological sense even if it is intellectually and otherwise wrong.

"The Blame Game: 11 Scapegoats in History."

Following reaction from Muslims around the world, they are now in hiding and under police protection. And again, the uncanny verisimilitude: “Defenders of the liberal bargain in America have been slow to recognize the threat posed by the revival of theologically inspired politics in our time. In the Tucson sector, just, such persons had been picked up by September, in the fiscal year that was about to end — scarcely one a month.”, The answer is that the undocumented Mexicans, like the furor they have attracted out of all proportion to the actual problems they pose, are serving a larger communal purpose. Berlinski's, Bawer's and Phillips's books all offer useful roundups of the unprecedented kind of anti-American rhetoric issuing from high quarters in Britain and the Continent these days, and though anyone following the European press since 9/11 will not need immersion, it is still surprising to see what vitriol certain eminent figures have put their names to.

what Katha Pollitt with no apparent irony calls on the cover “the ongoing takeover of our country by rightwing Christians.” Similarly martial and millenarian language permeates Golberg's book. How Europeans, Muslims as well as non-Muslims, cope with this is the question that will decide our future.

whenever Americans now a days are too lazy to work and do anything and do not make any money, "its all George Bush's fault". I n addition to the ideological scapegoats arising from points right to left, certain other forms of the denial of reality have also manifested themselves in the years since 9/11. Like Goldberg and Linker, Rudin peers into darkest reality to find it synonymous with the American Christian right.

He reports, for example, that Hezbollah has been known to train on the southern border — but relies mostly on an unnamed “former fbi agent” to make that serious charge, and then goes on to spend more pages raising the alarm over the Salvadorean gang Mara Salvatrucha (or ms–13). or in Iraq or Afghanistan since. Through the unlikely alliance of the Muslim Right and the British Left, anti-Americanism has escaped its circumscribed association with privileged, self-enamored sophisticates, permeated Britain's underclass, and become inextricably conflated with a raw strain of racial and religious resentment.” She, too, zeros in on the longer-term consequences of the capitulations large and small.

Of course, even one a month could ultimately spell apocalypse somewhere. Is it any surprise that they did, in London, in July 2005?”.

To repeat, the anti-Americans themselves cast the net far wider. One need only ask anyone who lives in New York or Washington or who lost family or friends on 9/11 or in Iraq or Afghanistan since. A highly visible manifestation of this scapegoating is evident in society’s treatment of youth violence. And so on — and on and on. So indiscriminately does Andrew Sullivan's latest book, (HarperCollins), malign them all that even sympathetic reviewer (and self-described friend of Sullivan's) David Brooks felt com, pelled to point out in the < i>New York Times, In sum, just as the paleoconservative and nativist wings of the right appear to have channeled the anxiety of the post-, years into one relatively safe scapegoat — largely Hispanic illegal immigrants — so have the libertarians and some liberal allies fingered their own culprit in the “theocrats,” “Christocrats,” “Christianists,” and “Christian nationalists.” At the heart of their case is an obnoxious positing of moral equivalence among “fundamentalists” and “theocrats” irrespective of religious stripe. that Mohammed was “a merciless warlord, looter, a mass murderer of Jews and a polygamist.” He and his family are now in hiding under police protection.

has been hijacked by right-wing zealots”) to a conclusion about “Taking America Back.” Moreover, the scapegoat requirement of disproportionality is surely met with his attack on that horror of horrors, home-schooling, which “represents a betrayal of an essential component of American culture.” “Betrayal,” incidentally, is another word often signaling a scapegoat, especially when it is used metaphorically.

In its own urbane way, this no-problem declaration is every bit as out of touch with reality as the response of the missile-spotters, the demolition obscurantists, and everyone else producing one proof too many showing that our “worst” problems somehow lie elsewhere. "Satan an easy scapegoat for shortcomings."

African-Americans are a consistent target.

As with the example of illegal immigration, this rhetoric all makes perfect sense — or would in a world where Jerry Falwell calls down fatwas on, Club sends suicide bombers into the Key West Fantasy Fest, and Richard John Neuhaus posts death warrants on. All make arguments rather than vent noxious emotion, and none gives off the telltale signs of scapegoating.

(April 14, 2013). Whether out of a failure of imagination or for some other reason, Islamist terrorists have in fact shown little interest or presence south of the border; and it is not Islamist terrorists that the Minutemen devote their nights to tracking. In the years since, he has produced not one but three books —, while these past five years, as the list of ostensible dire threats to the republic has grown — illegal Mexican immigrants, legal American Christians, the Mossad, the.

(April, 14, 2013) http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2008/10/21/top-10-world-series-moments/slide/bill-buckners-error/, Turner, Dale. Its thesis — that Bush and his Cabinet had purposefully, if not perhaps always consciously, misled Americans and even themselves by refusing to acknowledge the severity of the problems in Iraq — resonated not only in the reflexive anti-Bush media venues that repeatedly showcased it, but also with other Americans increasingly skeptical about the war.

Berlinski's, Bawer's and Phillips's books all offer useful roundups of the unprecedented kind of anti-American rhetoric issuing from high quarters in Britain and the Continent these days, and though anyone following the European press since, will not need immersion, it is still surprising to see what vitriol certain eminent figures have put their names to. Add that anyone English-speaking and determined enough could presumably charm an.

[is that] Germany, like much of Europe, remains totally unprepared for the reality of modern terrorism.” That month also marked the one-year anniversary of riots in Muslim suburbs outside Paris and elsewhere during which many thousands of cars were burned in numerous cities, including a record, in one single night in the capital.

no, not immigrants from the demographic and cultural risk pool associated worldwide with Islamism, but rather those from somewhere else: specifically those working-class, poor, Spanish-speaking, largely Christian migrants from Mexico and other points south who break U.S. immigration laws by crossing the border in search of work. (“We think,” Berlinski quotes the document as saying, “that the Spanish government could not tolerate more than two, maximum three blows, after which it will have to withdraw as a result of popular pressure.” As it happened, it took only one blow, days before a national election, to swing the result in favor of the party pledging withdrawal.) December 1968: Yoko Ono and John Lennon in happier times. Tom Tancredo, a congressman from Colorado who is closely identified with the Minutemen, a group that has taken upon itself the mission of monitoring the southern border, similarly opens his new book In Mortal Danger (wnd Books) on this apocalyptic note: “I want to do what I can to defend the West in the clash of civilizations that threatens humanity with a return to the Dark Ages.” A “clash”? . As with the paleoconservative right and its Mexican illegals, this single-minded insistence on having located “the” fundamental problem for America is characteristic of the anti-“theocrat” genre. (April 12, 2013) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charlie-campbell/historical-scapegoats_b_1258511.html, Dye, Lee. "There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight!". Michael Moore's. There are indeed parts of the border where barbed wire fences, guns, and dogs are not enough to protect Americans from having their property trampled and diminished by constant traffic; some Americans in those towns also fear crime and experience other insecurities; and immigrant children in some cities are in fact impeded in their assimilation by the idiocy of some Anglo-enforced multicultural curricula.