Thursday, June 17, 2004
A DARK VIEW OF AMERICAN POWER
Salon has the text of a speech that new York University law professor Stephen Holmes recently gave to a group of intelligence professionals. Recommended reading for those, like me, who have supported the war in Iraq. Holmes gathers all the world's vectors of anti-Americanism together in one place for a single, long negative sigh. Interesting, also, because Holmes seems to have a pretty clear view expressed elsewhere that liberty is a value more fundamental than democracy, but throughout this talk, he keeps refering to "democracy" as the thing that America and all the world are contending over. In the end, he can't seem to bring himself to say that democracy can't succeed in the Muslim world because liberty cannot thrive there. But it seems he understands that.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 6:28 PM
