Michael Ignatieff's "Empire Lite"
Although Michael Ignatieff is the best educated among the Liberal leadership contenders, he is also the most pro-Bush and perhaps the most dangerous because of this. Somewhat like an intellectual Stephen Harper? As my good friend Tom Engelhardt wrote in his latest piece on TomDispatch Tomgram: Bush's Faith and the Middle East Aflame (which was also published on my site just prior to this post):
"... even a liberal Canadian commentator, Michael Ignatieff, could publish a piece in the New York Times Magazine extolling George Bush's U.S. as "a new invention in the annals of political science, an empire lite, a global hegemony whose grace notes are free markets, human rights and democracy, enforced by the most awesome military power the world has ever known." He wrote as well of the necessity of Americans shouldering the "burden of empire" in Iraq. (Historically, there's only one such "burden," by the way – and it's Rudyard Kipling's nineteenth century "white man's burden.")
Read Michael Ignatieff's piece: "Empire Lite" here.
Tags for this entry: Michael Ignatieff, Bush, Liberal Party.
posted by Annamarie at
5:51 PM
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Harper is an intellectual.
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Peter Rempel, at
8:15 AM
If you say so.
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Annamarie, at
1:32 AM
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