"This is the single most chaotic organisation I have ever worked for." Reminds me of the sort of thing I would expect, say, Niall Ferguson to say; sitting before the Council on Foreign Relations on C-SPAN and telling the lot of them that they were running an empire, in denial about it, and weren't doing it as well as the British. Very amusing fellow, outside the fact that he thinks it's just swell to stomp on other peoples' necks so long as the GDP grows. Neo-cons love him, so whynitpick? Maybe because they're incompetent and America -
The quote spurring me off into blatherskites via juan cole.
The United States under Bush is driving toward empire, but the domestic political fuel being fed into the engine is that of a wounded and vengeful nationalism.
:: posted by buermann @ 2003-06-19 01:44:08 CST |
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