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Consider the Spanish-American War in 1898, when patriotic zeal (stoked up by the yellow press) overcame the lack of evidence of Spain's involvement in the sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine. Rallying to the cry, "Remember the Maine!," American troops stormed Cuba and the Philippines. Patriotism reached a similarly vindictive peak after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1942, when Japanese Americans were thrown into internment camps--again with no evidence of their involvement in sabotage. |