In this critical intervention against those liberal commentators
who fervently beat the war drums - from Christopher Hitchens to
Bernard-Henri Levy - Richard Seymour unearths the history of
liberal justifications for empire. He shows how savage policies of
conquest - including genocide and slavery - have been retailed as
charitable missions and argues that the colonial tropes of
civilization and progress still shape liberal pro-war discourse,
and still conceal the same bloody realities. A new afterword
assesses interventionism after the election of Obama, with the
ongoing occupation of Afghanistan and NATO's Libyan venture.
Review: Among those who share responsibility for the carnage and
chaos in the Gulf are the useful idiots who gave the war
intellectual cover and attempted to lend it a liberal imprimatur -
Richard Seymour expertly traces their descent from humanitarian
intervention to blatant Islamophobia. Gary Younge; A powerful
critique of 'humanitarian intervention' and of those liberal
intellectuals who support it. Independent.
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