Iraq : The Borrowed Kettle by Zizek, Slavoj

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London / New York: Verso, 2005. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. First printing. Bottom corner of rear wrapper creased. 2005 Trade Paperback. 188 pp. In order to render the strange logic of dreams, Freud quoted the old joke about the borrowed kettle: (1) I never borrowed a kettle from you, (2) I returned it to you unbroken, (3) the kettle was already broken when I got it from you. Such an enumeration of inconsistent arguments, of course, confirms exactly what it attempts to deny—that I returned a broken kettle to you. That same inconsistency, Žižek argues, characterized the justification of the attack on Iraq: A link between Saddam's regime and al-Qaeda was transformed into the threat posed by the regime to the region, which was then further transformed into the threat posed to everyone (but the US and Britain especially) by weapons of mass destruction. When no significant weapons were found, we were treated to the same bizarre logic:… Read More

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Paperback / softback. New. That same inconsistency characterized the justification for the US-led invasion of Iraq is argued in this study.