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The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a watershed in many people’s perceptions of the new world order. The Project for a New American Century’s ambitions unilaterally to use war to deter potential rivals and assert US global pre-eminence was being enacted before our eyes.1 The bombing of Baghdad turned this imperialist rhetoric into imperialist fact.
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Holborow, M. (2006). Ideology and Language: Interconnections between Neo-liberalism and English. In: Edge, J. (eds) (Re-)Locating TESOL in an Age of Empire. Language and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-0-230-50223-9_5
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