A stellar humanistic imperialist! If only people were better at it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/apr/26/fred-halliday-obituary
Fred favoured western interventions in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq – Saddam Hussein and his regime being by far the greater evil – but criticised what he considered the arrogance and incompetence of the US and British administrations of these policies and their tragic consequences.
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--- On Mon, 4/26/10, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Fred Halliday has passed away
> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Monday, April 26, 2010, 3:27 PM
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/anthony-barnett/fred-halliday-1946-–-2010<http://www.opendemocracy.net/anthony-barnett/fred-halliday-1946-%E2%80%93-2010>
>
> <http://www.opendemocracy.net/anthony-barnett/fred-halliday-1946-%E2%80%93-2010>Fred
> Halliday died this morning in Barcelona where he had been
> battling with
> cancer. His twenty plus books (there are more to come), his
> compelling
> lectures, his wide ranging, powerful essays and journalism,
> provided a
> constant source of inspiration for many of us around the
> world. He was a
> like a one-man international: dedicated and passionate in
> the cause of
> justice; hard-headed in insisting upon the obstacles that
> had to be
> overcome; scathing about the stupidities of those who
> proclaimed they were
> the force of progress; constantly aware of the deeper
> levels of cultural and
> religious irrationality and its shaping power – and
> capable of making
> astoundingly well-informed judgments about almost anywhere
> on the planet.
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