Friday 3 July 2009

Black Mass



[Photo: Charles Graner poses with the body of a dead Iraqi prisoner]

" . . . the picture of post-war Iraq that neo-conservatives disseminated was a tissue of disinformation and wishful thinking, while the willingness to use intolerable means to achieve impossible ends showed the utopian mind at its most deluded."


- John Gray, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, my emphasis

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