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Yes -- I think we pretend to ourselves that the worst excesses of the War on Terror were driven by people with whom we disagree, when just as many were driven b
by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Yes -- I think we pretend to ourselves that the worst excesses of the War on Terror were driven by people with whom we disagree, when just as many were driven by those we politically resemble.
- pasabagi 5y agoAcross the spectrum, too. Ian Bank's Culture series is a great big apologia for liberal interventionism, and he's literally a communist.
- Apocryphon 5y agoIt appears that all except for the last three Culture novels were written prior to 2001. It's not as if there wasn't pro-interventionism from the liberal side, under the elder Bush and Clinton administrations the U.S. became "the World's Policeman" after the Cold War, but within a multilateral aegis (U.N.-authorized interventions in Iraq, Somalia, NATO missions in the Balkans, etc.). The second invasion of Iraq was a drastic sea change. Many of America's traditional allies (France, Germany) rejected it. China and Russia condemned it. The U.N. was not behind it. It was preemptive and extrajudicial.