Normblog protest

Norm Geras rails against “the forces of 'peace party' liberalism and the socialist, anti-globalist left” for their failure to show either joy or relief over the toppling of Saddam Hussein.

So the wished-for demise of President George W. Bush, this is a matter for public enactment and celebration; but the actual demise of one of the world's worst dictators, that is a dirty little piece of private shame for people who should have been out there shouting their elation, should have been some time for heaven's sake - if not on that day, then later, today even - shouting their joy that one national prison had been prised open, that one foul symbol of the crushing of humanity had been toppled, echoing the relief of Iraqis. But they never did and they still won't. What a scale, what a relativity, of values.

And what cost “these symbolic betrayals of the values of liberalism and democratic socialism?”