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Timothy Garton Ash on the culture war in the US

Writer and historian Timothy Garton Ash describes in the Italian daily La Repubblica the scenario of a culture war in the United States that he says also plays a signigicant role in the current election campaign. "No one has generated more hot air in this cause than Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly, who in 2006 published a book proudly called 'Culture Warrior'. He describes the culture war as a battle between traditionalists ('T-Warriors') like himself and 'the committed forces of the secular-progressive movement that want to change America dramatically: mold it in the image of western Europe'. Like Europe! God, how horrible. ... O'Reilly pounds the hot buttons of the culture war with a ham fist: abortion, drugs, gay marriage. ... The framing of the political debate in cultural conservative terms ... contributed significantly to George Bush's election victories in 2000 and 2004. And one way of understanding the direction taken by the McCain campaign over the past few weeks is this: only the culture war can win it for us now. On Iraq, we lose. On the economy, we lose. But by caricaturing the liberal otherness of a candidate called Barack Obama, perhaps we can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Enter Sarah Palin, the Katyusha rocket of red America. ... Even if the red-clawed tactics of culture war don't pull Obama down at the last minute, an Obama victory won't spell the end of this war. But perhaps it may spell the beginning of the end. ... The world needs the United States to get over its cultural civil war, and get over it fast. Not that these moral, cultural and social issues are unimportant. They are among the most important things. But they are also among the most private things. The business of government and the law should be confined to providing a liberal (in the classical sense) framework in which men and women can make personal choices about private goods."

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