"Shouldn't human rights be the best cause for starting a
war?" So asked The Wall Street Journal on Dec. 8.
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["If Americans have an empire, they have acquired it in a state of
deep denial. But Sept. 11 was an awakening, a moment of reckoning
with the extent of American power and the avenging hatreds it
arouses. Americans may not have thought of the World Trade Center or
the Pentagon as the symbolic headquarters of a world empire, but the
men with the box cutters certainly did, and so do numberless
millions who cheered their terrifying exercise in the propaganda of
the deed."--Michael Ignatieff, The
Burden of Empire, New York Times, January 5, 2003]
