Comments on: Republicans For Ignatieff

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:28:05 +0000

David Bromwich has an excellent post on our serial wars in which he quotes Michael Ignatieff, a just war theorist, who threw his support behind the invasion of Iraq. In an article in the New York Times Magazine, Ignatieff argued that war is “a matter of American civic duty.”

In the article he tells us:

Regime change is an imperial task par excellence, since it assumes that the empire’s interest has a right to trump the sovereignty of a state. Regime change also raises the difficult question for Americans of whether their own freedom entails a duty to defend the freedom of others beyond their borders…Yet it remains a fact…that there are many people who owe their freedom to an exercise of military power.

He then goes on to cite Afghanistan and Iraq as recipients of American benevolence, a gift I’m sure the citizens of these countries celebrate daily.

By: Tom Robinson

Tom Robinson — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:37:49 +0000

BTW, the link isn’t working.

By: Tom Robinson

Tom Robinson — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:34:23 +0000

This is what makes Canada a joke on the international scene.

The same people that call President George Walker Bush a “war criminal” are the same people who are going to vote for Iggy in the next election even though Bush and Iggy share the exact same philosophy.

Think about that for a minute.

A liberal is going to vote for Iggy even though he defends a “war criminal”.

Canadian politics is starting to get real childish and utterly ridiculous.