democracy & peace: February 2008 Archives

I don't claim to understand all the nuances or historical context of this article, A long road from Kosovo to Kurdistan, but the case made by Pepe Escobar that the US is hellbent on securing oil corridors through militarism is compelling and disturbing.

Alas, there is no such thing as moral purity:

"The major problem - one of the major problems, for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

"To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

Nonetheless, if Clinton-Obama or Obama-Clinton could just manage to put institutional change above personal ambition...!