Comments on: WRATH OF GOOD: No Evil, No Good. http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/wrath-of-good/ Intelligence at the core of humanism. Mon, 20 May 2013 19:10:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Patrice Ayme http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/wrath-of-good/#comment-690 Sun, 31 May 2009 21:28:31 +0000 http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/wrath-of-good/#comment-690 Thanks, Tom, I appreciate! I also appreciate that the New York Times has the courage to publish this sort of acerbic critique (it had wilted like a violet, avoiding to publish a few remarks of mine recently, especially on torture…) We are living in a new world, where everybody can speak at last, and circumvent the traditional structures of mental power reserved to the few. Athenians considered this a pillar of democracy, the equality of speech making capability, they had a name for it… And it has been denied ever since…

]]> By: tomdegan http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/wrath-of-good/#comment-689 Sun, 31 May 2009 15:34:27 +0000 http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/wrath-of-good/#comment-689 “But then Hussein became uppity, something a plutocrat such as Bush does not tolerate in domestic help. Bush’s dad had not been as decisive, and it was time to show to the world that American plutocrats had command and control, of the entire planet. So Bush tried to out maneuver bin Laden by using the latter as a pretext to attack Iraq. Iraq had oil, and the sort of strong fascist somewhat socialized and organized Arab state Iraq represented was not something American plutocrats wanted to see extend all over the place. American plutocrats prefer states such as Saudi Arabia: weak, corrupt, full of juicy private deals for Anglo-Saxon plutocrats and their friends.”

Your comments on Frank Rich’s site this morning were, as usual, right on target. Thanks, Patrice.

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