They've only just begun
by Justin Raimondo
AntiWar.Com
02/23/05
[Robert] Novak, being a conservative, has the charmingly old-fashioned idea that you need real evidence -- and not just emotional hysterics and blind incitement -- before condemning a nation and openly threatening them with regime change. But that kind of thinking is a relic of America's republican past, when free men and women judged the actions of their government with a critically discerning eye. The imperial era has a different way of looking at these things: truth emanates not from reality, but from power -- which is the only reality. The Empire is so powerful that it creates its own reality, and this crazed belief permeates Imperial America, especially among the elites...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4933
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
AntiWar.Com
02/23/05
[Robert] Novak, being a conservative, has the charmingly old-fashioned idea that you need real evidence -- and not just emotional hysterics and blind incitement -- before condemning a nation and openly threatening them with regime change. But that kind of thinking is a relic of America's republican past, when free men and women judged the actions of their government with a critically discerning eye. The imperial era has a different way of looking at these things: truth emanates not from reality, but from power -- which is the only reality. The Empire is so powerful that it creates its own reality, and this crazed belief permeates Imperial America, especially among the elites...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4933
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 23. Feb, 15:14
