feelin' secure in conspiracy nation

[Dave Monroe]

>From Slavoj Zizek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real
(New York: Verso, 2002), Ch. 2, "Reappropriations: The
Lessons of Mullah Omar," pp. 33-57 ...

"... on September 11, the USA was given the
opportunity to realize what kind of world it was part
of.  It might have taken this opportunity--but it did
not; instead it opted to reassert its traditional
ideological commitments: out with feelings of
responsibility and guilt towards the impoverished
Third World, we are the victims now!  So when, apropos
of the Hague Tribunal, Timothy Garton Ash pathetically
claims: 'No Fuhrer or Duce, no Pinochet, no Idi Amin
and no Pol Pot should any longer be allowed to feel
safe from the intervention of the poeple's justice
behind the palace gates of sovereignty,' we shoulkd
simply take not of who is missing in this series of
names which, appart from the standard couple of Hitler
and Mussolini, contains three Third World dictators:
where is at least one name from the Big Seven--say,
somebody like Kissinger?" (p. 47)

http://www.versobooks.com/books/tuvwxyz/xyz-titles/zizek_desert_real.shtml

Quoting Timothy Garton Ash, "Slobo und Carla,"
Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 14 March 2002, p. 15 ...

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