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Saturday, March 29, 2003
We'll grant that it's more than zero 
| | To all pro-war advocates, from the hesitant to the rabid, the craven to the honorable, if the liberation of Iraq is an important objective of the war, how many deaths suffered by the people slated for liberation would signal the failure, for you, of the enterprise? We can discount the deaths of nasty people in the Republican Guard, the Mukhabarat, etc. -- they've got it coming -- and limit the question to the civilian population. We can agree -- I hope -- that if every last civilian was to die for the sake of the Iraqis' liberation, that would constitute a failure. So what's the tipping point? (For population data, consult the CIA Factbook.) |
Why are We?
| | I am searching of course for Other perspectives on Us. But I am also trying to get a better sense of what feels like a collision since September 11 of Post-Colonialism and Neo-Imperialism. |
| | Even before September 11, and with alarm since then, I've had the feeling that the Bush dream is to recapitulate the British and Spanish empires. Didn't the Azores summit make it almost too obvious? |
| | The mission that comes naturally to George W. Bush in the circumstances is to re-otherize the world. The global thrust behind so much else--in markets and culture, Internet technology, environmental salvation, medicine (and, yes, our own radio adventure) is to de-otherize the world. |
| | I love that: de-otherize the world. Maybe that's the primary difference between warblogging and peaceblogging. It's otherization vs. de-otherization. War is the Great Otherizing Force in the world. Always has been. |
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