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Blitzkrieg: a new freedom to be feared: the US administration''s developing sense of ''freedom'' grants license to destroy without taking on any reciprocal responsibility. (against the current).

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1221 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
As the Iraqi campaign drew to the end of its first phase, George W. Bush exuberantly declared: 'these are good times in the history of Freedom' and his supporters around the globe agreed. 'Freedom'--from 'they hate us for our freedom' to 'freedom (formerly French) fries'--had already become the number one piece of political kitsch in the wake of September 11, but has now become a mantra to justify almost anything. The rhetoric serves as an ideology which can be said to conceal the destructive underside of US policy. But this is the soft critique of freedom. It addresses a very familiar use of ideology. The uses of freedom today are actually more complex than this.

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helps us to see this more complex side of freedom when he identifies and defends a practical relation between freedom and destruction. When the first instances of looting emerged in Iraq, he infamously claimed that the looters were expressing their freedom. He accepted a relation between freedom and destruction as the price of freedom. While such a claim would not do well...

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