I share Buehrens’s opposition to the Bush administration’s stated policy of pre-emptive war. But finding things to admire about Saddam’s regime hurts his pragmatic argument.
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‘Democracy’ in Iraq.
Invoking Gilgamesh as evidence of 4,000 years of democracy.
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The mind in chains.
“After long acquaintance with his role, a man grows into it so closely that he can no longer differentiate his true self from the self he simulates, so that even the most intimate of individuals speak to each other in Party slogans.”