[lbo-talk] Obama and the Cult of Personality

Matthias Wasser matthias.wasser at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 20:54:56 PST 2009


"(And in Iraq 2003, were not the Bushies enforcing long-neglected UN resolutions that an "international community" was too corrupted and cowed to enforce, and thus in fact prosecuting the universal will?)"

Of course, or at least that's how the administration tried to frame it. That was an orthogonal sell to the national security/preemptive war sell, though.

Ten-tenths of the law is what you can get away with. With international law it's just more obvious.



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