On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Chris Brooke < chris.brooke at balliol.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> This one?
>
> 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:
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> > 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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