Wednesday, October 22, 2003
The Nuremberg Election
From Eat the State, Geov Parrish looks at the strange case of Wesley Clark, "peace candidate," and his links to mistreatment of Haitian refugees fleeing Baby Doc, the assault on the Branch Davidians at Waco, Colombian death squads, and the targeting of civilian infrastructure during the war in Kosovo. Parrish says: "Clark's political ascent is an indication of how firmly embedded a bellicose foreign policy is in both major parties; of how feeble the American public's imagination has become when trying to consider how best to conduct ourselves in a shrinking world; and how susceptible progressives and peace activists have become to that same failure."
From Eat the State, Geov Parrish looks at the strange case of Wesley Clark, "peace candidate," and his links to mistreatment of Haitian refugees fleeing Baby Doc, the assault on the Branch Davidians at Waco, Colombian death squads, and the targeting of civilian infrastructure during the war in Kosovo. Parrish says: "Clark's political ascent is an indication of how firmly embedded a bellicose foreign policy is in both major parties; of how feeble the American public's imagination has become when trying to consider how best to conduct ourselves in a shrinking world; and how susceptible progressives and peace activists have become to that same failure."
