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

  • From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 23:12:03 +0200

Ah I forgot how we were told stories about how Bin LAden escaped through
Bora-Bora even though the best commandos were after him etc.  I think that
Bin Laden is most likely drinking cocktails on Hawai, unless he died a
natural death by now.

O.K.


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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