Monday, September 03, 2007

Dictating events through force...

From truthout.org :

Chris Hedges
The Next Quagmire

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090307B.shtml

Chris Hedges writes for Truthdig: "We live in an age where dialogue is dismissed and empathy is suspect. We prefer the illusion that we can dictate events through force. It hasn't worked well in Iraq. It hasn't worked well in Afghanistan. And it won't work in Iran.

But those who once tried to reach out and understand, who developed expertise to explain the world to us and ourselves to the world, no longer have a voice in the new imperial project. We are instead governed and informed by moral and intellectual trolls."

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