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How now, cowboy? The uses and abuses of a national icon.(CULTURE WATCH)
'THE end of cowboy diplomacy," Time magazine recently announced of George W. Bush's supposed turn to softer talk and more multilateral policymaking. The Beltway consensus is that the beleaguered president has finally learned that he cannot posture as the lone ranger on the frontier. Instead he has concluded that, in a sophisticated world where all nations are interdependent, there is no place for his "smoke 'em out," "dead or alive" Weltanschauung--or even for those post-9/11 photo-ops in which he drove his pickup around the ranch to chainsaw brush while wearing a Stetson and shades.
So we are likely to hear no more "Get out of Dodge" threats, as when the ...
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