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Author Creed, Pamela, 1969-

Title Ethics, Norms and the Narratives of War : Creating and encountering the enemy other / Pamela Creed
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (177 pages)
Series War, Conflict and Ethics
War, conflict and ethics.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The making of an American war narrative; 1 From crisis to consensus; 2 Shifting storylines: enter Iraq; 3 The push toward preemptive war: from rhetoric to reality; Part II: Narrating ourselves into war; 4 Receiving the narrative; 5 Myth, memory and humiliation; Part III: Living the narrative; 6 Embracing uncertainty; 7 Between spaces: confusion and courage; 8 Conclusion; List of interviews; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book examines the ethics and values that render a war discourse normative, and features the stories of American soldiers who fought in the Iraq War to show how this narrative can change. The invasion of Iraq, launched in March 2003, was led by the United States under the now discredited claim that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
Notes Print version record
Subject Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
Soldiers -- United States -- Attitudes
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
War -- Moral and ethical aspects
Armed Forces -- Attitudes
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Soldiers -- Attitudes
SUBJECT United States -- Armed Forces -- Iraq -- Attitudes
Subject Iraq
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136252075
113625207X