[lit-ideas] Re: Empires, Liberal Democracies, and Core States

  • From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 22:54:57 +0200

Well, as it happens, the small Montenegro is now sending troops to
Afghanistan to pacify the things there. I thought that we were told that it
was settled in 2001 ?''

O.K.


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Omar: An empire that cannot even control Afghanistan certainly should be
> relieved of its imperial duties.
>
> Ha-ha! Besides the confusion of national response to 9/11 (the CIA
> overthrowing the Taliban) with British imperial ambition, Omar's
> response is funny for the purity of its Nietzschean resentment.
>
> Ha-ha! In other words, "If I cannot condemn the US as empire, I will
> condemn it for failing to be one." The condemning is the point. It's not
> really about empire is it?
>
> EY
>
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