Hi-jack fall-out

[Brad DeLong]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>No. I genuinely don't understand how anyone can think that killing 
>>a secretary working on the 80th floor of the World Trade Center 
>>hurts some organism called "the U.S." that, say, assisted 
>>Pinochet...
>
>So how does killing half a million Iraqi kids hurt an organism 
>called "Saddam"?

It doesn't: organicist nationalism is one of the most poisonous 
ideologies of the twentieth century. But the fact that it is a 
powerful and poisonous ideology doesn't make it true--or something I 
can understand--or something that anyone should empathize with.

Brad DeLong