{"id":3290,"date":"2007-02-18T19:24:40","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T02:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/18\/david-brooks-saddamist\/"},"modified":"2007-02-18T19:24:40","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T02:24:40","slug":"david-brooks-saddamist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/18\/david-brooks-saddamist\/","title":{"rendered":"David Brooks, Saddamist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Silber reads <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/18\/opinion\/18brooks.html?hp\">David Brooks<\/a>, and finds him saying the darnedest things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brooks then describes how &#8220;order&#8221; and &#8220;obedience&#8221; will save us individually, and society in general, from our own depravity. He also says:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Iraq has revealed what human beings do without a strong order-imposing state.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If the horrors of what we have done in Iraq were not so overwhelming, the ironies in that single sentence would be delicious. In one sense, I suppose this represents an improvement: it&#8217;s no longer simply that the &#8220;ungrateful&#8221; Iraqis are awful, and unable to appreciate the marvelous &#8220;gifts&#8221; we&#8217;ve bestowed on them. No, now it&#8217;s that <em>all<\/em> human beings are rotten. And I must admit I derive no small amount of enjoyment from seeing those who championed this criminal catastrophe \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and who vilified everyone who opposed it as being &#8220;pro-Saddam&#8221; and &#8220;on the other side&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c finally reduced to impliedly saying <em>themselves<\/em> that Iraq was better off with Saddam. (Many Iraqis have been <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/powerofnarrative.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/better-saddam-than-way-it-is-now.html\">saying this for some time<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/powerofnarrative.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/writing-from-scaffold-in-defense-of.html\">Read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Silber reads David Brooks, and finds him saying the darnedest things: Brooks then describes how &#8220;order&#8221; and &#8220;obedience&#8221; will save us individually, and society in general, from our own depravity. He also says: &#8220;Iraq has revealed what human beings do without a strong order-imposing state.&#8221; If the horrors of what we have done in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}