Mutatis mutandis, Iraq
Interesting quote from Slavoj Žižek:
Today we can see that the paradox of the bombing of Yugoslavia is not the one that Western pacifists have been complaining about – that NATO set off the very ethnic cleansing that it was supposed to be preventing. No, the ideology of victimization is the real problem: it’s perfectly fine to help the helpless Albanians against the Serbian monsters, but under no circumstances must they be permitted to throw off this helplessness, to get a hold on themselves as a sovereign and independent political subject – a subject that doesn’t need the kindly shelter of NATO’s “protectorate.â€? No, they have to stay victims. The strategy of NATO is thus perverse in the precise Freudian sense of the word: The other will stay protected so long as it remains the victim.
He amplified on this when I saw him speak in Oxford recently – of which more soon.
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