roachboy

the parallel to world war 2 is totally inappropriate. first because the war in iraq is not over. second because of everything else about the analogy.

the analogy to a patient on the operating table at least has the virtue of being funny. for some reason, it made me think of the game "operation"

i do not think that assessing the situation in iraq need come down to yet anther occasion for rehearsing your basic relation to the war itself....if you follow powerclowns argument out, it would mean that the view that the war is deepening follows from a hostile disposition toward the fact of the war rather than from looking at available information.

i might agree that some kind of democratization is a desirable goal for countries in the region in general terms (the states could use more democracy as well, for that matter), but nothing about the argument would lead one to conclude that the bush project is either legitimate in itself or that it advances that general cause. hailing "the effort" in the abstract runs us into the strange world of contemporary management literature, in which change and "leading change" have become ends in themselves--the obsession with "change" as an end in itself is something that should be looked at in the context where it makes sense, and carefully, rather than being taken as given and mapped onto other stiuations.

george w. bush and the war in iraq are to the discourse of democracy what stalin was to the discourse of worker revolution.

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