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18 Nov 2008 03:23 pm
Has The US Become The USSR?
Juan Cole examines the latest Bond:
With this film, Daniel Craig's Bond, who is from a considerably lower social class than Flemings', has chosen to defy the white-tie set, and the Bush administration's greed and lawlessness, and to stand up for the little people (including Camille, who symbolizes Morales's Indios). At one point the smarmy CIA man Beame rejects any criticism from Bond of US imperialism, given Britain's own long and sordid imperial history. But a country, and a people, always has a choice in each generation, of whether to do the right thing. They are not prisoners of their ancestors.
Craig's Bond is an intimation of the sort of Britain that could have been, if Tony Blair had stood up to Bush and refused to be dragged into an illegal war of choice, and into other actions and policies that profoundly contradicted the principles on which the Labour Party had been founded (and you could imagine Craig's Bond voting for Old Labour, while Flemings's was obviously a Tory).
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