Air Force One Rhetorical Analysis

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President Marshall, in his anti-terrorism speech, “Air Force One,” expresses his feelings on the horrors done by the Kazakhstan and how he feels that enough wasn’t done to help. His purpose is to implement a dramatic change in foreign-policy in order to allow people to do more. He creates a passionate yet criticizing tone in order to convey to the audience that never again will he allow political self interest to deter him from doing what he knows is morally right and that “real peace is not the absence of conflict, it’s the presence of justice.” To do so, he relies on rhetorical question, antithesis, imagery, anaphora, and a personal pronoun shift.
Marshall uses rhetorical question and antithesis in section 2 of his speech in order to explain