American Literature
asked President Bush how it was possible to bomb Afghanistan and still profess "to be a follower of Jesus Christ...feel obliged to respect human
rights, [and] present liberalism as a civilization model." Twain called the PhilippineAmerican War "a quagmire from which each fresh step renders
the difficulty of extrication immensely greater," adding, "I wish I could see what we are getting out of it, and all it means to us as a nation." We've
been stuck in a lot of quagmires since 1900. We've rarely benefited from them, and each time, policy decisions have eroded civil liberties at home
and pummeled our reputation abroad. Now the fusions of marketplace, foreign policy, and religious ideologies have driven us into a world crisis, but
our national narrative has not changed, and we are unable to break through to a clearer understanding of who we are and how we should be
conducting ourselves on the world stage.
Henry James's psychological realism.
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