Rhetorical Analysis Essay On Chris Hedges

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Chris Hedges' states in his introduction, "we in the industrial world bear responsibility for the world's genocides because we had the power to intervene and did not. We stood by and watched the slaughter in Chechnya, Sri-Lanka, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Rwanda, where a million people died (16)." The world could not prevent innocent people from war, which was failure of the world leaders and country like the United States. Hedges' idea and experiences about war and conflict are real and powerful that gives us insights of the hidden reality. His speech and writing provides about physical, emotional, and moral destruction from these bloody wars, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Middle East. Hedge's arguments help us to understand the real face of the

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