http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n05/ande01_.html
It ends like this:
*** What conclusions follow? Simply this. Mewling about Blair¹s folly or Bush¹s crudity, is merely saving the furniture. Arguments about the impending war would do better to focus on the entire prior structure of the special treatment accorded to Iraq by the United Nations, rather than wrangle over the secondary issue of whether to continue strangling the country slowly or to put it out of its misery quickly. ***
On 19/5/09 18:37, "Mark Bennett" <bennett.mab at gmail.com> wrote:
> Didn't Perry Anderson have a long piece in the LRB a couple of years ago on
> this subject? I believe he argued that the Bush/Dick regime differed
> primarily in its style from more "progressive" administrations: It was
> simply more openly imperialist and less apologetic about it than most, if
> not all, or its predecessors.
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> "What distinguished the oddly demented regime of George Bush and Dick
>> Cheney is that it openly reveled in its barbarity and sought to give torture
>> legal sanction.... Obama seeks to return to the bourgeois norm."
>> - "U.S. Imperialism: Torture, Repression and War," Workers Vanguard, May
>> 8, 2009
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