By Jeffrey J. Kubiak
With the U.S. battle in Afghanistan in its 12th yr, axioms in regards to the American nationwide will in battle no longer with the ability to tolerate whatever except speedy and costless adventures were came across dead in realizing why the U.S. keeps to persist in that pastime. This ebook solutions complicated questions on smooth US intervention overseas.
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The different actors and mechanisms at work within the narrative make it possible to generate several plot lines, or more than one interpretation of the same story. As such, a war narrative can be a patchwork of partial stories and does not necessarily have to have internally consistent logic. The war narrative is also not completely static. A war narrative can evolve over time in response to events as they happen. To avoid a dramatic change that would threaten the credibility of the narrative, changes generally occur by highlighting one plot line in the original narrative while submerging or minimizing less compelling or completely flawed ones.
95 Using data on congressional committee and floor debate activity, and its coverage in the media, I identify specific periods during which the war policy is on the national macropolitical agenda.
Casualties. Additionally, sustaining a policy’s cognitive legitimacy is central to maintaining its normative legitimacy and therefore its stability. The desirability of a policy is founded on expectations of future outcomes, which are created by the assertions and assumptions that support its cognitive legitimacy. 24 Policy legitimacy cannot be considered a dichotomous variable. The degree of legitimacy that a policy can attain—and therefore political support for its initiation and continuation—falls along a continuum.
