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Articles that reference Cowboy

  • Gender and the American Ideology of War (February 23, 2004)
    ...don on February 15, one of the larger signs appropriately urged, "Stop Mad Cowboy Disease!" Both liberals and leftists in the U.S. have had difficulty in be...
  • Diverse and Determined (February 16, 2003)
    ...nd pounding drums, most people carried signs, some of which said "Stop Mad Cowboy Disease," "Go Solar, Not Ballistic" and "Pack a Bowl for Peace," "Calm Dow...
  • The World Waits (September 10, 2002)
    ...he will have to summon a diplomatic finesse at odds with his hang'em-high, cowboy image. He should present not an ultimatum, but a plan for initiating th...
  • Europeans Fret, Fearing a Bolder Bush (November 5, 2002)
    ...BERLIN — Europeans, having at times accused George W. Bush of cowboy diplomacy, worried on Wednesday the U.S. president would be more emboldene...
  • Bigotry in Islam – And Here (July 9, 2002)
    ...I shouldn't inquire too closely in the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian." History suggests tha...
  • Opposition to USA Patriot Act Swells (November 15, 2003)
    ... Calls for repeal of the act have found fertile ground in Nevada — an old cowboy state where state vs. federal issues are still fought on riverbeds, at nuc...
  • Friendly fire deaths linked to US pilots 'on speed' (August 3, 2002)
    ...ably aggressive. It goes beyond fatigue or lack of experience or [being a] cowboy or trigger happy or any of the standard prosaic explanations. The simplest...
  • Gunning for the Root of 'Evil' (April 14, 2002)
    ...mnly told, has no origins or causes that need concern us. This cartoon cowboy perspective is deeply dangerous to American interests. The truth is far da...
  • Bush's Doctrine for War (March 18, 2003)
    ...e will undoubtedly play into the favorite image of Mr. Bush as gunslinging cowboy. In the past, the White House has always dismissed that view as a gross ca...
  • As US Pursues Verbal War on Iraq, the World Voices Concern (September 1, 2002)
    ...atirical paper Le Canard Enchâiné shows President Bush as a pistol-packing cowboy, articulating a magic formula for prosperity. "It's simple," Mr. Bush says...
  • The Peace Movement Lives (September 27, 2002)
    ... course, more time during election season for Dubya to insert his size 238 cowboy boots into his mouth on a daily basis. The timing of a Congressional vo...
  • Saddam in the Crosshairs (November 21, 2001)
    ...ience increasingly tried by the Wolfowitz Cabal. Indeed, despite the CIA's cowboy image, the Agency's old Afghan and Middle East hands marvel at what they c...
  • Lockdown on Sea Island: Scenes from the G8 Summit (June 8, 2004)
    ... Seagull, a "semi-underground" periodical, is a gentle radical who wears a cowboy hat with a feather in it and carves weirdly beautiful faces in the island'...
  • Mighty in Pink (February 14, 2003)
    ...ssachusetts, sees connections between the Bush Administration's bellicose, cowboy rhetoric and violence against women. Gesturing with some frustration towar...
  • Thousands of Anti-War Demonstrators March (March 22, 2003)
    ...from Albany, N.Y., said he would be there "to protest the administration's cowboy diplomacy." Bloomberg, speaking Friday on his weekly radio show, questi...
  • Councils of War (January 1, 2002)
    ...ld World counterparts. The blame for this failing is usually placed on our cowboy heritage, the self-absorption of our politics, the limits of our education...
  • Diplomatic Breakdown (April 27, 2003)
    ... of science, the bastion of freedom, albeit heavily armed. Ronald Reagan's cowboy charm and Bill Clinton's saxophone were marketable elements of the brand....
  • Whitewash As Public Service: How The 9/11 Commission Defrauds The Nation (October 1, 2004)
    ... like Hansel and Gretel breadcrumbs. And there’s a constant flashing of cowboy quotations. Scooter Libby telling how fast the tough Vice President makes...
  • Beyond Fallujah: A Year With The Iraqi Resistance (June 1, 2004)
    ...th guns, it is a challenge to us. America wants to show its power, to be a cowboy. . . . Bush wants to win the next election—that is why he is lying to the...
  • The Need for a New Wilsonianism (September 2, 2002)
    ...teralism, in other words, has less to do with the peculiarities of Bush's "cowboy" mindset or even exceptionalism than with the sheer inequality in hard pow...
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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.