Berman and Liberalism

The argument over the war in Iraq has become so tired, so butchered and distorted that it is almost impossible to articulate a resonable, fresh and insightful position. Any attempt to justify the war on anti-totalitarian terms inevitably meets with an assertion that Bush is himself a fascist to rival Il Duce and that the US and Israel are simply bastions of free market fundamentalism and militarism.

This line of argument is so blind, so historically and philosphically vacuous, that any rational response is likely to fall on deaf ears. No doubt the Bush administrations deceptions and falsifications have discredited the most ardent of liberals who ventured to peer through the veil of the Left's moral certainty/blindness and emerge with the notion that maybe there were issues at play which might outweigh concerns over american hegemony.

Still, consider this.