File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2003/lyotard.0303, message 9


From: steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:04:34 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?the_healer...?=


http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,906196,00.html

Robert Kagan is the American thinker who first identified the growing
transatlantic rift and coined the phrase "Americans are from Mars and
Europeans are from Venus". Here he argues that Tony Blair is the only leader
who can bring the two back together.... 

The above is an interesting American perspecitve on the differences between
mainstream USA and mainstream European positions.

My favorite quote is the "kantian" reference...

regards
steve


> Yeah, I read that today as well.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk>
> To: <lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 7:21 AM
> Subject: Re: America the arm-twister
> 
> 
>> David
>>
>> An interesting text. The particularly sick aspect of the Bush-Blair
> postion
>> is the use of the late 1930's 'appeasement' policy to justify invading
> Iraq.
>> Not to bizarrely it is probably more appropriate to think of the USA
>> and
> UK
>> as the   colonial power invading Vienna... [I look forward to the Iraq
>> version of the sound of music....]
>>
>> This morning (Monday) there was an interview with military advisers
>> who
> were
>> discussing the 'prepare for war' policies being carried out in Iraq at
>> present. They agreed that the change in strategies being carried out
>> at present means in effect that 'The war has already started...' As
>> they are now 'softening up'  the Iraq ground forces.
>>
>> regards
>> steve



   

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