19 Jan	Course Introduction.
	The following videos may be watched and discussed in class the first week. Videos:  "Mehsud's Death Sparked CIA Attack" (Hammam Khalid Al-Balawi suicide bomber video, Al-Jazeera (9 January 2010). Sheikh Terra, "Dirty Kuffar" (2004) Reading: Rageh Omaar, "Osama bin Laden: Icons of the Decade," The Guardian (22 December 2009). Richard A. Clarke, "Ten Years Later." Atlantic Monthly (January/February 2005) 61-77. ASSIGNMENT: Write a short response to the piece assigned to you and post it to the appropriate forum on our Moodle web forum.
26 Jan	Rhetoric, Peace, Conflict: Where are we Today?
	A New Direction? President Bush Delivers Farewell Address to the Nation (15 January 2009). (video available) President Barack Obama, "A New Beginning," (Cairo, 4 June 2009).  (video available) Assistant to the President John O. Brennan delivers "A New Approach to Safeguarding Americans" (6 August 2009) Dick Cheney comments to Politico (30 December 2009) Recommended: President Bush, Final Press Conference (12 January 2009). Remarks of Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama Against Going to War with Iraq (2 October 2002) Julia Riber Pitt, Interview with Noam Chomsky (Part I and Part II) on Obama's Foreign Policy (YouTube videos, 13 January 2009). John O. Brennan Lashes Out at Cheney (video 3 January 2010).
2 Feb	The Language of War and Peace
	Videos: Warning:  These videos are disturbing. Construction of Suicide Bomb Vests.  Iraqi Resistance Video (20 December 2004). "I've Tortured and Raped in Iraq."  Drunk American soldier boasting about war crimes (30 March 2007). Required: President Barack Obama, Statement by the President on the Attempted Attack on Christmas Day and Recent Violence in Iran (28 December 2009) Michael Scheuer, "Barack Obama, Interventionist and Ultimate Jihadi Hero," Antiwar.com (31 December 2009). George Lakoff, "'War on Terror,' Rest in Peace," Rockridge Institute (28 February 2006) and (with Evan Frisch) "Five Years After 9/11: Drop the War Metaphor" (11 September 2005). James Fallows, "Declaring Victory," The Atlantic (September 2006). Recommended: President Barack Obama, State of the Union Address (27 January 2010). David Cromwell, "Were Afghan Children Executed By Us-Led Forces? And Why Aren't The Media Interested?" Z Magazine (14 January 2010). Craig Nelson, "Israeli ‘human shield’ claim is full of holes," The National (13 January 2009). M. Karen Walker, "Rhetorical Analysis Studies Pertaining to the Global War on Terrorism: An Annotated Bibliography," (March 2008).
9-16 Feb	Peace and Conflict: Theory, Strategy, Rhetoric.
	Required: Warren F. Kuehl, "International Peace," The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas Volume 3, ed. Philip P. Wiener (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974). Sun Tzu, "The Art of War" (c. 400 B.C.) Chapter I "Initial Estimations" Kenneth Burke, "The Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle" The Philosophy of Literary Form, 3rd ed. (1941; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), 191-220. Graduate Students: Erich Ludendorff, "On Overcoming the Consequences of the Lost War," from Kriegführung und Politik (Berlin, 1922), pp. 332-42, translated by Richard S. Levy. Mirror here Michel Foucault, "Society Must Be Defended," trans. David Macey, Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76 (New York: Picador, 2003) Lecture 1 (pp. 1-19) and Course Summary (pp. 265-272). Recommended: Curt Day, "Will The Peace Movement Survive Obama Or Will We Perish?" OpEdNews (19 November 2008). Sun Tzu, "The Art of War." Mirrored here. Thucydides, "History of the Peloponnesian War." (431 B.C.) Antulio J. Echevarria II, "War and Politics: The Revolution in Military Affairs and the Continued Relevance of Clausewitz," Joint Forces Quarterly (Winter 1995-96). Mirrored here; HTML version here. George Lakoff, "Metaphors of Terror," The Days After (University of Chicago Press, 16 September 2001) Hamit Bozarslan, "Theoretical Paper: Some Remarks on Mass Murders, Social Darwinism and Mysticism in the 20th Century," Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence (18 November 2007). Harun Yahya, "The Real Ideological Root of Terrorism: Darwinianism and Materialism," Islam Denounces Terrorism.com
23 Feb - 2 Mar	Declaring War: Identifying Enemies, Means, and Goals
	Required: President Ronald W. Reagan, Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals (8 March 1983). (View full video) President George H. W. Bush, Address to the Nation Announcing Allied Military Action in the Persian Gulf (16 January 1991).  (listen to an excerpt) Osama bin Laden, Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders (23 February 1998). President George W. Bush, President Bush Addresses the Nation (19 March 2003). Video here. President Barack Obama, On the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan (1 December 2009). Graduate Students: Robert L. Ivie and Oscar Giner, "More Good, Less Evil: Contesting the Mythos of National Insecurity in the 2008 Presidential Primaries," Rhetoric and Public Affairs 12:2 (2009). Andrew Rojecki, "Rhetorical Alchemy: American Exceptionalism and the War on Terror," Political Communication 25 (2008). Recommended: George H. W. Bush, Address to the Nation Announcing United States Military Action in Panama (20 December 1989). Osama bin Laden, Message to the American People (29 October 2004).
9 - 16 Mar	America Under Attack:  Declaring War on Terrorism
	MIDTERM March 16th (1 hour) Required: President Ronald Reagan, President Reagan's Address to the nation on Lebanon and Grenada (27 October 1983) (you can watch the speech on youtube) President Bill Clinton, Remarks of the President Regarding Military Strikes In Afghanistan and Sudan (20 August 1998) President George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People (20 September 2001). Osama bin Laden, "The Solution," video transcript by Laura Mansfield (7 September 2007). President Barack Obama delivers Remarks on Strengthening Intelligence and Aviation Security (7 January 2010) Recommended: President Jimmy Carter, State of the Union Address (23 January 1980). President Ronald Reagan, Statement on Lebanon and Grenada (27 October 1983) President George W. Bush, Presidential Address to the Nation (7 October 2001). Peter Schweizer, "WWRD? How would President Reagan fight the war on terror?" National Review (15 October 2002)
23 Mar	Metaphors of War
	Required: Erin Steuter and Deborah Wills, At War with Metaphor: Media, Propaganda, and Racism in the War on Terror Part I (read through page 65). Graduate Students: Immanuel Wallerstein, "America and the World: The Twin Towers as Metaphor," Charles R. Lawrence II Memorial Lecture, Brooklyn College (5 December 2001). Roger Stahl, "Why We 'Support the Troops': Rhetorical Evolutions." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 12:4 (Winter 2009). Nick Muntean, "Viral terrorism and terrifying viruses: the homological construction of the ‘war on terror’ and the avian flu pandemic," International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 5:3 (2009). Recommended: General Friedrich von Bernhardi, "The Next War" (1914) Germany and the Next War (New York, 1914). Translated by Allen H. Powles. Mirror here.
30 Mar	Holy Wars
	Required: Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California, 1991) Chapter 1 and Chapters 9-11. Ronald W. Reagan, Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals (8 March 1983). (review) ASSIGNMENT: Students will work in small groups on Chapters 2-7 of Juergensmeyer; each group will deliver a brief oral presentation outlining the main arguments of their chosen chapter (see Group Project Assignment for details).  Everyone will read chapters 1 and 8-11.
6 Apr	Spring Recess
	No Class Meeting!
13 Apr	Rhetorics of Terrorism and Martyrdom
	Required: President Ronald Reagan, Message on the Observance of Afghanistan Day (21 March 1983).  See also Proclamation 5034 (same day). Mohammed M. Hafez, "A Case Study: The Mythology of Martyrdom in Iraq," eJournal USA (May 2007). Recommended: Muadh bin Abdullah Al-Madani, "The Nineteen Lions," Azzam (12 December 2002). Gabriel Weimann, "Mass-Media Theater," eJournal USA (May 2007). Hasan Ali Daba, "I Am a Terrorist" Jihad Unspun (4 April 2002). Edna Yaghi, "You Have Made Me Your Human Bomb," (30 September 2001) Nizar Qabbani, "I am with Terrorism," (15 April 1997) Carlos Marighella, "Mini-manual of the Urban Guerrilla," (Berlin, 1970) translator unknown. Mirror here and here.  Vandana Shiva , "Terrorism As Cannibalism," ZNet (23 January 2002). Atallah Abu Al-Subh, "To America," Al-Risala (Gaza, 19 September 2001) PBS Frontline Interview with bin Laden (May 1998) ASSIGNMENT: At 6:00 PM, class will reconvene at the University Student Union for a debate; students are asked to post on the "War on Drugs" moodle page before the next class meeting.
20 Apr	The Nuclear Era: WMD and the Islamic Bomb
	News Analysis Due before midnight Required: Robert S. McNamara, "No Cities" (Speech of 16 June 1962) and "Assured Destruction" (Speech of 18 September 1967). Pervez Hoodbhoy, "Myth-Building: The 'Islamic' Bomb" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1993) David Eshel, "Bhutto's Murder Spurs Al Qaeda's Quest for Islamic Nukes," Defense Update (29 December 2007).
27 Apr - 4 May	The Roles of Media.  Making Peace?
	Final Project Due before midnight May 4th Required: Erin Steuter and Deborah Wills, At War with Metaphor: Media, Propaganda, and Racism in the War on Terror Part III (read pages 155-211). President Barack Obama, "Remarks by the President at the Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize," (Oslo, 10 December 2009). President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address (17 January 1961). Graduate Students: Patricia Roberts-Miller, "Dissent As 'Aid and Comfort to the Enemy': The Rhetorical Power of Naive Realism and Ingroup Identity," Rhetoric Society Quarterly 39:2 (April 2009). Kyra Pearson, "'Words Should do the Work of Bombs': Margaret Cho as Symbolic Assassin," Women and Language 32:1 (2009).
11 May	FINAL EXAM
	Final exam will begin at 5:30 PM.