On May 19, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Chris Brooke wrote:
> This one?
>
> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n05/ande01_.html
>
> It ends like this:
>
> *** What conclusions follow? Simply this. Mewling about Blair’s
> folly or
> Bush’s 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. ***
This is true. But bourgeois norms are slightly better than reveling in barbarity.