A Liberal on Anti-War Reasoning
A Liberal on Anti-War Reasoning
. . . . Other than strengthening the hand of civil society (instead of weakening it as has been done in the case of Iraq), there is no easy, pristine way of dealing with [dictators like Saddam Hussein].
Strengthening civil society. Well, that would indeed be a fine thing. Perhaps more could have been done to strengthen civil society in Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's China, or perhaps in Kim Jong-Il's North Korea too. What is astonishing here is not the naivety, but the off-handed way well-heeled commentators in London, California, or New Delhi, talk about the suffering of the very people they pretend to stand up for. Vidal dismisses it as 'not my problem'. Tariq Ali calls for more violence. And Arundathi Roy prattles about civil society.
posted by TAotB at 4:19:00 PM
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