Pitching the Imperial Republic: Bonaparte and Bush on Deck
Juan Cole writes for TomDispatch: "French Egypt and American Iraq can be considered bookends on the history of modern imperialism in the Middle East.... There are many eerily familiar resonances between the two misadventures, not least among them that both began with supreme arrogance and ended as fiascoes. Above all, the leaders of both occupations employed the same basic political vocabulary and rhetorical flimflammery, invoking the spirit of liberty, security, and democracy while largely ignoring the substance of these concepts."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082307F.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juan+Cole
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082307F.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juan+Cole
rudkla - 23. Aug, 23:00
