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05 Jan 2007 01:26 pm
An Eye for an Eye
A classic from Dean Barnett at the Hewitt blog:
There is a deep undercurrent of savagery in the Iraqi culture that will not just inhibit the growth of a peaceful democracy there, but probably prohibit it. The only answer, as it always has been, is to stamp out that savagery ferociously and totally.
I'm struck by how many on the hard right believe that more violence, and more brutal violence, is what is needed in Iraq. According to their logic, we defeat savagery with savagery and torture with torture. At home, we defend the rule of law by suspending the rule of law and we protect freedom by suspending freedom. And at the end of this cycle of revenge and violence?
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The Noble Savage
Excerpt: In the week of blogging that was, I made one post that generated a fair amount of controversy. Writing on the struggle in Iraq and the larger conflict against Radical Islam, I offered the following analysis:
There is a deep undercurrent of...
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Tracked: Jan 6, 2007 12:45:53 PM
Defence of War - Barbarism
Excerpt: Dean Barnett is being ridiculed by Andrew Sullivan for suggesting the following:There is a deep undercurrent of savagery in the Iraqi culture that will not just inhibit the growth of a peaceful democracy there, but probably prohibit it. The only
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