I admire your passionate conviction Lawrence, but just because some rotten
statesman's justification for bombing Iraq is characterised as common
sense, it doesn't mean that commonsense is wrong, it means the
characterisation is. I mean if someone says, "Bombing Iraq is good", does
that mean there's something wrong with "Good" ? The whole campaign against
Iraq is very much not commonsense, because it doesn't work, it doesn't
achieve its objectives or any other, it was a policy arrived at
undemocratically and does nothing for democracy anywhere on earth, and its
long-term consequences are potentially threatening to the future of the
society we live in, which those people are supposed to be defending. The
outstanding example around at present of governments defying commonsense is
British and EU policy towards asylum seekers, where they are plainly acting
against the best interests of this society. (There's a recent excellent
little book about this by Jeremy Harding).
I don't know why everyone things commonsense is worth attacking or
defending-- it's just an ordinary thing that people get by with.
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