Apple-pie disorder: Anatol Lieven congratulates the Bush administration.
Its oft-stated desire to bring democracy to the Arab world is a stroke of
'malign brilliance'. By tapping into an American missionary
tradition, the new imperialists have succeeded in co-opting the liberal intelligentsia.
The promise of unconditional peace at the point of a gun sits at the end
of their messianic charge. And Tony Blair rides alongside: the 'heir of Gladstone,
a muscular imperial Christian righting the world's wrongs, whether the world
wants this or not.' [Open
Democracy].
