Comments on: Brooks Puts On His Deep Thinking Cap (VII) http://larison.org/2007/02/18/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-vii/ n. the principle of good order "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:24:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: daninardmore http://larison.org/2007/02/18/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-vii/#comment-5602 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:07:11 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/02/18/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-vii/#comment-5602 Okay, good. I see the URL automatically becomes a clickable link. Okay, good. I see the URL automatically becomes a clickable link.

]]> by: daninardmore http://larison.org/2007/02/18/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-vii/#comment-5601 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:06:08 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/02/18/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-vii/#comment-5601 Apropos of nothing in this particular post, I just want to call Daniel's and everyone else's attention to the trouble McCain is having with the folks back home. You'll have to copy & paste, since I don't know how to create a link within a comment, if there is a way. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070305/blumenthal Apropos of nothing in this particular post, I just want to call Daniel’s and everyone else’s attention to the trouble McCain is having with the folks back home. You’ll have to copy & paste, since I don’t know how to create a link within a comment, if there is a way.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070305/blumenthal

]]> by: Pithlord http://larison.org/2007/02/18/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-vii/#comment-5600 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:18:12 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/02/18/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-vii/#comment-5600 The thing is that almost everyone who supported the Iraq war in fact did so on tribal grounds. "Arabs attacked us -- it's time to get some Arabs." That's a perfectly normal human reaction, although we ought to rise above it. What the neoliberals and neocons provided was a justification for this impulse that sounded more acceptable to liberal modernity. I wonder how many people ever believed it. The thing is that almost everyone who supported the Iraq war in fact did so on tribal grounds. “Arabs attacked us — it’s time to get some Arabs.” That’s a perfectly normal human reaction, although we ought to rise above it.

What the neoliberals and neocons provided was a justification for this impulse that sounded more acceptable to liberal modernity. I wonder how many people ever believed it.

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