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Yet even that is not as silly as [Scott Lucas] can get. He also argues that Kitchens, after lashing the anti-war movement over Afghanistan, "needed to renew himself with another cause". So along came Iraq because, "if the first unifying crisis in the War on Terror [the situation in Kabul] was becoming far too complicated, another one could be found to revive the denunciation of the left". So not oil. Not imperialism. Not even Palestine.
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Brothers in Arms
Why is it "fearless" to dissent? Tariq Ali is still lionised by cafe society; George Monbiot is never off Newsnight. By
Brothers in arms The Betrayal of Dissent: beyon Orwell, Hitchens and the new American century Scott Lucas Pluto Press, 336pp, £10.99Wars and the like often throw up new spokesmen - previously unknown pamphl...See the full content of this document
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