License for the New Barbarism (2003)

The Bush administration would like the world to think otherwise, September 11 changed little. A new, more violent world order was already taking shape well before that. But, suffering from a rather sizeable legitimacy deficit, the U.S. government seized on the events of September 11 as the closest thing to a license that it was going to get. Like the “containment of Communism” and the defense of “democracy” and “human rights,” the “War against Terrorism” veils the pursuit of the United States’s real goals.

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