Summary Of Metaphor And War Again

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This article, Metaphor and War, Again, Written by George Lakoff, AlterNet is about the power of metaphor and how it can change the way we view world issues. “A Nation Is A person”, is the metaphor used as our foreign policy. Iraq is viewed as a single person in terms of this metaphor. A Nation is seen as one single person, Saddam Hussein. In the Gulf War I, bombs were dropped and innocent people were killed who, according to the metaphor, we are not in war against. The way the government justifies the war metaphorically is a “just war” and showing selective information through fairy tale stories: Self- Defence story and Rescue story. In the Gulf War I, Bush used the self defence story, when Americans didn't believe it he changed the type to

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