Re: Loren Goldner query on imperialism
On Dec 3, 2006, at 3:19 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
I can remember arguing, with others, that the return of the
recession in the 1980s would lead to a re-conquest of the world on
the Lenin model, but I was wrong. Maybe something of that sentiment
was abroad in the talk of civilising missions and such-like, but
our contemporary elites lack the inner certainty of those British
District Officers from the Colonial Office who lorded it over the
natives without cutting and running like Donald Rumsfeld.
Is it that, or is it that our semi-democracy acts as a check on
foreign adventures (if they cause too many US casulties, that is)?
Doug