Wednesday, August 5, 2009

A review of Jean Bricmont's new book "HUMANITARIAN IMPERIALISM"

Using Human Rights to Sell War

Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers—above all, the United States—in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks. The criteria for such intervention have become more arbitrary and self-serving, and their form more destructive, from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan to Iraq. Until the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the large parts of the left was often complicit in this ideology of intervention-discovering new “Hitlers” as the need arose, and denouncing antiwar arguments as appeasement on the model of Munich in 1938.
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19 comments:

  1. vAugust 5, 2009 at 11:05 AM

    liberate them!!!!

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  2. MaracatuAugust 5, 2009 at 1:19 PM

    But now, I hear the right wing (nuts 8-) ) are saying that Obama is Hitler!??!

    Maybe the US should invade itself?

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  3. thankgodimatheistAugust 5, 2009 at 4:21 PM

    Some of those are the most vociferous about humanitarian intervention in France are the most fanatic Zionists...The "philosophers" Alain Finklekraut and Bernard-Henri Levy and The minister Bernard Kouchner...They're actually the ones that Bricmont (one of my all time favorite intellectuals) in cooperation with Alan Sokal was thinking of in his book. In one of his other books he was targeting another cast of French intellectuals who were in the business of writing hermetic, unintelligible texts and books. He provoked a storm in the French intellectual circles..

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  4. thankgodimatheistAugust 5, 2009 at 4:26 PM

    Those who are the most vociferous about humanitarian intervention in France are the most fanatic Zionists...The "philosophers" Alain Finklekraut and Bernard-Henri Levy and to a lesser degree, the now minister Bernard Kouchner...They're actually the ones that Bricmont (one of my all time favorite intellectuals) in cooperation with Alan Sokal was thinking of in his book. They were all over the place in the 80s and 90s screaming and calling for intervention in every single part of the world to rescue all the opressed of the planet but curiously enough NEVER in  Palestine!!! In one of his other books he was targeting another cast of French intellectuals who were in the business of writing hermetic, unintelligible texts and books. He provoked a storm in the French intellectual circles..

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  5. thankgodimatheistAugust 5, 2009 at 4:28 PM

    Those who are the most vociferous about humanitarian intervention in France are the most fanatic Zionists...The "philosophers" Alain Finklekraut and Bernard-Henri Levy and to a lesser degree, the now minister Bernard Kouchner...They're actually the ones that Bricmont (one of my all time favorite intellectuals) in cooperation with Alan Sokal was thinking of in his book. They were all over the place in the 80s and 90s screaming and calling for intervention in every single part of the world to rescue all the opressed of the planet but curiously enough totally indifferent to the plight of the Palestinian people!! In one of his other books he was targeting another cast of French intellectuals who were in the business of writing hermetic, unintelligible texts and books. He provoked a storm in the French intellectual circles..

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  6. thankgodimatheistAugust 5, 2009 at 4:34 PM

    Those who are the most vociferous about humanitarian intervention in France are the most fanatic, rabid Zionists...The "Nouveaux Philosophes" Alain Finklekraut and Bernard-Henri Levy and to a lesser degree, the now minister Bernard Kouchner...They're actually the ones that Bricmont (one of my all time favorite intellectuals) in cooperation with Alan Sokal was thinking of in his book. They were all over the place in the 80s and 90s screaming and calling for intervention in every single part of the world to rescue all the opressed of the planet but curiously enough totally indifferent to the plight of the Palestinian people!! In one of his other books he was targeting another cast of French intellectuals who were in the business of writing hermetic, unintelligible texts and books. He provoked a storm in the French intellectual circles..

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  7. thankgodimatheistAugust 5, 2009 at 4:35 PM

    Those who are the most vociferous about humanitarian intervention in France are the most fanatic, rabid Zionists...The "Nouveaux Philosophes" Alain Finklekraut and Bernard-Henri Levy and to a lesser degree, the now minister Bernard Kouchner...They're actually the ones that Bricmont (one of my all time favorite intellectuals) was thinking of in his book. They were all over the place in the 80s and 90s screaming and calling for intervention in every single part of the world to rescue all the opressed of the planet but curiously enough totally indifferent to the plight of the Palestinian people!! In one of his other books, in cooperation with Alan Sokal, he was targeting another cast of French intellectuals who were in the business of writing hermetic, unintelligible texts and books. He provoked a storm in the French intellectual circles..

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  8. thankgodimatheistAugust 5, 2009 at 4:37 PM

    As you might know, Bricmont wrote a great text, The Dezionisation of The American Mind"..I'm thinking that I need to make it a post..A must..

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  9. anandAugust 5, 2009 at 5:05 PM

    TGIA, I admire idealists. They believe that all humans are entitled to dignity, freedom and transparency and are willing the bleed to achieve it. Even if imperfect and incompetent, it is hard not to be moved by the dedication to cause greater than themselves.

    TGIA, a genocide of muslims was stopped in Yugoslavia by mostly westerners. Tens of billions in grants pouredwith the multinational forces that have considerably boosted the local economy. Isn't that an accomplishment?

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  10. anandAugust 5, 2009 at 5:05 PM

    Mara, I think some of those nuts need a kick in the nuts. Go Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  11. vAugust 5, 2009 at 9:10 PM

    hahaha!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBzlKHMwK6Q

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  12. thankgodimatheistAugust 6, 2009 at 1:34 AM

    Oh really anand?
    How comne neither BHL nor Finklekraut or Kouchner never called for anything concerning the Palestinians..BHL thoought that the IDF was a moral army which  took extreme care to spare the civilians of Gaza by warning them before any bombardment!?!..Now many IDF who were involved are saying this rubbish!

    A totally abhorant son of a skunk this BHL!! I know him VERY well anand..Don't forget that I lived 30 years in France!

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  13. thankgodimatheistAugust 6, 2009 at 1:36 AM

    Oh really anand? 
    How comne neither BHL nor Finklekraut or Kouchner never called for anything concerning the Palestinians..BHL thoought that the IDF was a moral army which  took extreme care to spare the civilians of Gaza by warning them before any bombardment!?!..Now many IDF who were involved are saying this is utter rubbish! 
     
    A totally abhorant son of a skunk this BHL!! I know him VERY well anand..Don't forget that I lived 30 years in France!

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  14. Jemmy HopeAugust 6, 2009 at 6:29 AM

    Has anyone a good word for B-H Lévy? I've never read anything positive about this joker and yet he is published. Is the CIA his agent (no pun intended)?

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  15. anandAugust 6, 2009 at 10:46 AM

    Maybe no one told them about Palestine. They aren't omniscient.

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  16. anandAugust 6, 2009 at 10:47 AM

    I like BH Levi. Be careful there. He is against Takfiri.

    He might not know much about Palestine, but that doesn't mean he is wrong on other matters.

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  17. thankgodimatheistAugust 6, 2009 at 6:59 PM

    This must be a joke!!!
    Ha ha !
    The three of them are Jewish and visit Israel regularly..Their support for Israel is well advertised...
    anand
    You're really an amazing person..

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  18. thankgodimatheistAugust 6, 2009 at 7:03 PM

    Give us a break with BHL... You have NO IDEA what this disgusting person represents..Many people are against takfiris, that doesn't make them worth listening to...

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  19. GuestAugust 7, 2009 at 1:48 AM

    anand did you klnow that some of the terrorist suspects recently arrrest in North Carolina have an interesting background?

    7 arrested in North Carolina on terrorism charge

    http://latimes.com/news/ nationworld/ nation/la- na-terrorism- arrests28- 2009jul28, 0,3376969. story

    EXCERPT:

    "...The indictment unsealed Monday has highlighted the complexities of the U.S. presence in Pakistan and Afghanistan in recent decades.
    Daniel Patrick Boyd once fought in Afghanistan and trained in guerrilla camps there and in Pakistan, the indictment said.

    But, it added, he did so between 1989 and 1992 in an effort to fight the occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Washington led and financed that campaign against its Cold War enemy with hundreds of millions of dollars in military and intelligence assistance, training and manpower.

    The Associated Press reported that Boyd, a drywall installer in Willow Spring, N.C., and his brother had been convicted of bank robbery in Pakistan in 1991 and of carrying identification showing they belonged to the radical Afghan guerrilla group Hezb-i-Islami...."

    Than they were considered as freedom fighters, and now they are supposedly wannabe terrorists....LOL!!!

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