THE WISDOM FUND: News & Views
The Seattle Times
January 1, 2003

America's New Voice Sounds a Tad Imperialist

"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]

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