retaliationist

(rɪˌtælɪˈeɪʃənɪst)

a retaliator

adj

of or relating to retaliation

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Faludi traces the American rejection of insecurity and vulnerability in a post-atomic age in the willing and speedy embrace of a retaliationist military posture 'that would doom our response' to the dire events of 9/11 so that when this trauma 'called [Americans] to forge a mindful future, we succumbed to the hauntings of a fabricated past'.

The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America

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