On Dec 3, 2006, at 3:19 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
> I can remember arguing, with others, that the return of the
> recession in the 1980s would lead to a re-conquest of the world on
> the Lenin model, but I was wrong. Maybe something of that sentiment
> was abroad in the talk of civilising missions and such-like, but
> our contemporary elites lack the inner certainty of those British
> District Officers from the Colonial Office who lorded it over the
> natives without cutting and running like Donald Rumsfeld.
Is it that, or is it that our semi-democracy acts as a check on foreign adventures (if they cause too many US casulties, that is)?
Doug