Empire is back with a vengeance. This is largely because the thing imperialism has increasingly obtruded itself on us all over the past few years, till now all the blood and clamour, the colonial expeditions and the grand financial and commercial manoeuvres are quite inescapable and undeniable. But, as historians have noted, empires have often disavowed themselves, and here there was a marked discursive shift in theUnited States, most notably during the administrations of George W. Bush. The journalist Ron Suskind reports a remarkable conversation with ‘a senior adviser to Bush’ during the summer of 2002, when the drums of war againstIraqwere beating ever louder: The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality’. [download]
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