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We need to remember and explore the dynamics of rage and retribution and the difficulties faced by the USA in coming to understand why it became the object of such hatred when its self-conception is framed around bringing freedom and democracy to others. This means recognizing and somehow learning from the difficulties of doing the repair work in terms of the USA’s and the West’s relationships with the Islamic world when 9/11 was so insistently represented in the global media as an attack on freedom, democracy and ‘civilization’ everywhere, and not as a specific response to US actions in the region.
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Seidler, V.J. (2013). Rage and Retribution. In: Remembering 9/11. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137017697_6
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