Victory To Iraq

[Brad DeLong]

>This from a man who thinks we should debate whether or not Nato was 
>a sufficient
>way to stop the impending genocide on the poor Kosovars- and thinks those who
>call the trial false are simply deluded, but thinks the media is somehow
>trustworthy on the subject of the trial of Milosevic.
>
>One need not be a Spart to realise that of course an Iraqi [victory] 
>would be a good thing.

The High Stalinists had a kind of... Miltonian grandeur. They were 
stooges of a genocidal paranoid madman, yes. But Stalin was a madman 
who genuinely believed that his crimes were necessary steps on the 
road to Utopia.

However, we have fallen far when we willingly become stooges for 
Milosevic or for Saddam Hussein, who have no illusions about their 
regimes being the next stage in the evolution of human society...

It's as if the story of Faust is being retold, this time not as 
tragedy but as farce. To swear allegiance to Josef Stalin is to 
become a vassal of Satan himself. To swear allegiance to Milosevic or 
Saddam Hussein is to become a vassal of... Pazuzu...

Brad DeLong