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:: 9.23.2006 ::

Ayn Rand's wet dream: Iraq, post-"Freedom"

The Iraqi Year Zeroists made natural allies for the White House neoconservatives: Chalabi's seething hatred of the Baathist state fit nicely with the neocons' hatred of the state in general, and the two agendas effortlessly merged. Together, they came to imagine the invasion of Iraq as a kind of Rapture: where the rest of the world saw death, they saw birth—a country redeemed through violence, cleansed by fire. Iraq wasn't being destroyed by cruise missiles, cluster bombs, chaos, and looting; it was being born again. April 9, 2003, the day Baghdad fell, was Day One of Year Zero.
Read the rest in Harper's.

Thanks to Jon for the link. An oldie but goodie.

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:: eyedot ::: images information ideation ::

:: EYE (anatomy), light-sensitive organ of vision in animals.:: EYE (verb), to look at to look at something or somebody inquisitively.:: EYE (noun), an ability to recognize and appreciate something; a point of view or way of thinking.

:: EYE (anatomy), light-sensitive organ of vision in animals.
:: EYE (verb), to look at to look at something or somebody inquisitively.
:: EYE (noun), an ability to recognize and appreciate something; a point of view or way of thinking.