The Liberal Defence of Murder Paperback / softback
by Richard Seymour
Paperback / softback
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A war that has killed more than a million Iraqis was a "humanitarian intervention", the US army is a force for liberation, and the main threat to world peace is posed by Islam.
These are the arguments of a host of liberal commentators, including such notable names as Christopher Hitchens, Kanan Makiya, Michael Ignatieff, Paul Berman, and Bernard-Henri Lévy.
In this critical intervention, Richard Seymour unearths the history of liberal justifications for empire, showing how savage policies of conquest-including genocide and slavery-have been retailed as charitable missions.
From the Cold War to the War on Terror, Seymour argues that colonialist notions of "civilization" and "progress" still shape liberal pro-war discourse, concealing the same bloody realities. In a new afterword, Seymour revisits the debates on liberal imperialism in the era of Obama and in the light of the Afghan and Iraqi debacles.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:Verso Books
- Publication Date:04/07/2012
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- ISBN:9781844678617
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:Verso Books
- Publication Date:04/07/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781844678617