…also busyman – in that I’ve been busy with business a lot for the last few days, and expect to continue to be so for a while. Much of what I’m doing consists of selling off the remainder of a…
Monthly Archives: October 2014
…and, Ultimately, to Destroy (2): Control
One pseudo-state calls forth another, as the goal of “mere control” constructs its own eventual failure, both logically and, it seems, practically.
replying to a comment on comments – part 2 (us v is)
(continuing reply to jch’s comment, with same proviso as before) 4 – Current Events or: Hegemony, What Is It/Good For? Now to current events, as we return to the original point of my intervention under the Quiggan post. jch says:…
Posted in History, Neo-Imperialism, notes, Political Philosophy, War Tagged with: Hegemony, Iraq, Islamic State, Syria
To Degrade and, Ultimately, To Destroy (1)
The President’s summary of his policy on the Islamic State or on “the group known as ISIL” was not elegantly enunciated: “To degrade and ultimately destroy” is a compound infinitive phrase that is pitched to the demotic or colloquial in…
replying to a comment on comments – part 1 (teleonomy)
(With apologies to john c halasz, who could not have anticipated in his comment responding to my comment, under my most recent post collecting comments, that I would decide to make a couple of posts out of my reply. I…
Posted in History, notes, Philosophy Tagged with: agapasm, Hegel, historicism, Kojève, Peirce, teleonomy
Wanted: Casus Belli (for the US, against the Assad Regime)
Blog version of Storify post:
us v is (What’s So Funny… 2)
…you do seem, at least, to be endlessly rationalizing U.S. imperial overreach, as if it were some sort of grand strategy upholding universal “liberal democracy”, where I tend to see incoherence, disintegration and devolution, on the part of grossly incompetent,…
Posted in Neo-Imperialism, notes, Political Philosophy, War Tagged with: IS, neo-imperialism, Syria, Turkey
What’s So Funny about Degradation and Ultimate Destruction?
If I find the time, I will finish and publish a more developed piece on America’s stance toward the Islamic State, partly in response to a post on by Adam Elkus and Nick Prime that, in the process of proposing…
Failure of the US-Syrian Rebel Alliance Is Two-Sided
To make war on Assad in the absence of a democratically validated decision for war and in the absence of an international legal justification for war would further undermine foundational American premises. Achieving both would not be impossible, but the Heaven and Earth-moving effort is not something that the United States of America or its President is presently likely to attempt on behalf of the united friends of Al Qaeda.