[lbo-talk] capacity to startle

Seth Kulick skulick at linc.cis.upenn.edu
Fri Mar 25 09:59:55 PST 2005


http://www.slate.com/id/2115170/

That Bleeding Heart Wolfowitz He's not exactly who you think he is. By Christopher Hitchens

[...] Now even the supreme and magnificent United States is hostage to debts held by others, while poor countries are mired in an even worse debt trap and the U.N.bureaucracy is a sweltering, corrupt banana republic in its own right. Who can guess the way out of these dilemmas? But with the Wolfowitz and even the John Bolton nomination to the United Nations, the Bush administration retains its capacity to startle, mainly because it has redefined the lazy term "conservative" to mean someone who is impatient with the status quo.



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