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Whatever use the phrase "Civil War" had before Iraq has been exhausted. When ex-generals, politicos, protesters and bloggers all scream or deny it without any real definition, it has become its own baggage.
Perhaps "Civility Challenged" would be less problematic?
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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