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American Militarism w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj

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Is There a Christian Just War Theory?

The idea that war has not been a part of Christian projects and projects of the church is just factually wrong. The term civilian is widely used not with reference to a noncombatant in a war zone, but rather to describe an American who has never experienced war. How did this pifurcated construction of the civilian citizen versus the soldier super citizen arise? And what are its implications for any sort of possibility of contesting American empire from within domestic politics?

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