Hitch

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Hitch  did
> say 2 intriguing things:
> 1) he wasn't sure whether the term "imperialism"
> accurately described what
> the US/UK were up to and 2) something to the effect
> that "we have to ask
> what a non-imperial occupation of Iraq would be
> like." So I think this would
> be a good jumping off point -- is a non-imperial
> occupation even imaginable?
> Jeet
> 

Sure. Like Condi says, we're "special" cause we love
freedom and democracy, so when we take over Iraq and
hand out its oil leases to the Prez's pal's, it's all
in a good cause, not imperialist. THEY are
imperialist, YOU are aggressive, WE are special.
What;s os hard about that? 

It's time to haul out Brecht's The Anachronistic March
of Freedom and Democracy (about postwar Germany), not
one his more poetic efforts, but to the point; or the
genuinely great poem that inspired it, Shelley's
Masque of Anarchy (nothing to do with Anarc_ism_), the
concluding lines of which comfort me in dark times:

Rise Like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number
Shake to earth the chains like dew
That in sleep have fall'n on you
Ye are many--they are few!

jks

jks

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