Nathan and Imperialsim

Max B. Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Tue Sep 24 15:15:27 PDT 2002


I've been collecting articles of just this type -- statements of avowed support for imperialism. I've got a bunch and will put them up on my web site, hopefully before the U.S. gets done auctioning off drilling rights in Iraq. All assistance in this vein gratefully accepted. I've also got old documents from Mark Twain and the Anti- Imperialist League. My ambition is to rehabilitate the word -- take the scare connotations out of it.

mbs

" . . . . And in fact the pro-war crowd is using terms like "empire" without a blush. The humanitarian rhetoric of the Clinton administration has been abandoned. Bush talks a combination of high moralism (axis of evil, etc.) and unblinkered and unvarnished national interest: hence the first strike policy, the Bush doctrine (no one will ever be permitted to acquire the capability to compete militarily with the US), etc. What more do you want, Nathan? I'm more comfortable talking about US imperialism than I have ever been. What do you think is going on, that Bush really objects to S.H. because he's a wicked dictator? jks

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