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Summary Of Fear And Loathing In America By Hunter S. Thompson
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For this week discussion, I would like to discuss about the story by Hunter S. Thompson, fear and loathing in America. The story portrays about the 9/11 event and its possible consequence about to happen. The author speaks about the lost innocent lives in their own home land, by their own airplanes by mysterious enemy. The story also touches the incapability of the US leadership for not giving the public about the attack and the once responsible for that.
Part of the story that kept my attention is the first line of the tenth paragraph. "This is going to be a very expensive war, and victory is not guaranteed, for anyone and certainly not for any one as baffled as George W. Bush"(Thompson, 2001). When someone goes to war there is
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