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From the 1970s to the 1990s, American presidents and their advisers introduced four metaphors into foreign-policy discourse that taught Americans to view the Persian Gulf as a vulnerable region and site of US responsibility on the world stage. Here, Randall Fowler argues that metaphor has been central to defining America’s role in the Middle East.

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From the 1970s to the 1990s, American presidents and their advisers introduced four metaphors into foreign-policy discourse that taught Americans to view the Persian Gulf as a vulnerable region and site of US responsibility on the world stage. Here, Randall Fowler argues that metaphor has been central to defining America’s role in the Middle East.
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Randall Fowler is assistant professor of communication at Abilene Christian University. A former Fulbright scholar, he is author of More Than a Doctrine: The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East and coauthor of Something to Fear: FDR and the Foundations of American Insecurity, 1912–1945.