Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle - download pdf or read online

By Slavoj Zizek

ISBN-10: 1844670015

ISBN-13: 9781844670015

That will comprehend why the Bush management invaded Iraq, learn Freud's Interpretation of desires, no longer the nationwide defense technique of the United States.

Žižek analyzes the weird good judgment used to justify the assault on Iraq.

In order to render the unusual common sense of goals, Freud quoted the previous shaggy dog story concerning the borrowed kettle: (1) I by no means borrowed a kettle from you, (2) I again it to you unbroken, (3) the kettle used to be already damaged while I bought it from you. Such an enumeration of inconsistent arguments, after all, confirms precisely what it makes an attempt to deny—that I back a damaged kettle to you.

That comparable inconsistency, Žižek argues, characterised the justification of the assault on Iraq: A hyperlink among Saddam’s regime and al-Qaeda was once remodeled into the possibility posed via the regime to the sector, which was once then extra remodeled into the danger posed to every body (but the U.S. and Britain particularly) by way of guns of mass destruction. while no major guns have been came across, we have been handled to an analogous weird and wonderful good judgment: okay, the 2 labs we chanced on don’t quite end up whatever, yet whether there aren't any WMD in Iraq, there are different reliable purposes to topple a tyrant like Saddam ...

"Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle" – that are regarded as a sequel to Žižek's acclaimed post-9/11 "Welcome to the desolate tract of the true" – analyzes the history that such inconsistent argumentation conceals and, at the same time, can't support yet spotlight: what have been the particular ideological and political stakes of the assault on Iraq? In vintage Žižekian sort, it spares not anything and no-one, neither pathetically impotent pacifism nor hypocritical sympathy with the affliction of the Iraqi humans.

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In addition to their domestic republican agenda, the Brissotins endorsed war for the ideological purpose of liberating Europe from monarchical rule. 8 War was presented as the solution to all French ills, including growing economic difficulties. Austria was the source of every problem: the Austrian alliance had marked the beginning of the end of France’s greatness; French foreign policy was being made by the ‘Austrian committee’ at court; the king was in treasonable correspondence with the Austrian emperor and the emigrés; the Declaration of Pillnitz was 21 THE BIRTH OF IDEOLOGY proof of an international conspiracy against the French Revolution.

21 On 1 February 1793 a revolutionary government in Paris once more anticipated an assault and declared war first; the vote for war this time was unanimous. 25 THE BIRTH OF IDEOLOGY Thus started the War of the First Coalition. Britain’s motives and war aims might be explicable by raison d’état, but the monarchies of Europe were also drawing closer together in common fear of revolution on the march. Pitt began the process of providing money to construct anti-French coalitions, the first of which soon included, besides the three major powers, Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, Naples and a number of German states.

Recent unrest throughout his empire suggested that Austria might be susceptible to ‘this pernicious French epidemic’. 4 Moreover, the summer of 1791 was a diplomatically propitious time for Austria to give attention to France. Fitful hostilities with Turkey were drawing to a close and, more crucially, a rapprochement with Prussia seemed to promise security in the Polish question as well as cooperation in Western Europe. The latter prospect brought together the Austrian emperor and Prussian king at Pillnitz.

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