I remember, too, the Arabs and Muslims who defended Saddam this time around. And how narcotizing and anaesthetizing the effect of Lifton's clarion call to inaction. How unbearable it must be to face the ignominious end, at American hands, of the man who would “show” the Americans. Today, the same person tried to get my mind off of the day's triumph by sending me Robert Jay Lifton's vacuous essay, “American Apocalypse” ( The Nation, Dec. “ That will show the Americans,” he said, pounding the table. As I watched Saddam's units roll into Kuwait City, the person sitting next to me-a non-Arab Muslim- cheered.
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I remember watching the invasion of Kuwait on TV in 1990. To which the immediate response was: “Oh no : there goes the election!” In other words: better that Saddam go free than that Bush profit from his capture and win re-election in 2004.
“Saddam has been captured!” I yelled at no one in particular. Perhaps it has to do with the first thing I heard after I learned of the capture this morning. The reasons for the sense of triumph are obvious enough. 30.Īs I sit here reflecting on the capture of Saddam Hussein, I find myself problematically hostage to dueling sentiments of triumphalism and depression.
Shelley Has it come to this then: an unconsciously held ideology that permits the most scandalous and disgusting lies-execrably written, totally disorganized, hysterically asserted-to pass as genuine scholarship, factual truth, political insight, without any significant challenge, demurral, or even polite reservation? -Edward Said, “Conspiracy of Praise,” Blaming the Victims (1988), p.
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