> 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.
For all the evils of lesser evil-ism, the lesser evil is less evil.