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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Friday, March 21, 2003
At a time when some are saying risks are more amorphous and less containable than ever, certain disgraceful ideologues are celebrating the progressive marginalization of the few mechanisms we have for dealing with them in any realistic fashion. Happy to clear the thickets of international law imperfectly impeding unelected President Bush's marrauding, disgusting advisor defense policy board chairman Richard Perle today "Thank[s] God for the death of the UN":
Saddam Hussein's reign of terror is about to end. He will go quickly, but not alone: in a parting irony, he will take the UN down with him. Well, not the whole UN. The "good works" part will survive, the low-risk peacekeeping bureaucracies will remain, the chatterbox on the Hudson will continue to bleat.
Uhm, except it's on the East River. Had their been oil deposits beneath Turtle Bay, you'd have known that though.
The rest of the piece is unremarkable, aside from its bearing next to no relation to empirical and historical reality. The subtitle - "Its abject failure gave us only anarchy. The world needs order" - though merits mention. It reminds me of Stanley Hoffman, who wrote that Herman Kahn's lunatic prescriptions condemned the world "to 'the burrow' Kafka describes in his nightmarish story, a burrow dug by an animal in quest of peace and security. Constant noises of mysterious origin keep the poor beast rushing in perpetual anguish in whatever direction the knocking seems to come from."
The Bush doctrine will keep us squarely in the burrow, emerging on occasion when, having fortified ourselves on the subhuman speculations of far-right think tanks and propaganda dehumanizing communists/Arabs/etc., we lash out in barbarism. posted by Anonymous1:58 PM
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