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/ 10 March 2003

The American sword keeps Saddam in his place

I believe that the world will be a much better place sans Saddam. I have no objection to his being overthrown by American force if, as seems likely, the job can be done without massive loss of life. But I am acutely aware that this puts me in the camp of a certain Texan moron, who happens to be leading the only campaign that seems likely to get rid of Saddam

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/ 9 March 2003

Lessons from imperial history

Britain’s 1879 invasion of the Zulu kingdom and the looming US war against Iraq have much in common. A closer examination of what happened in the South African past, of how the exercise of imperial violence shaped South Africa, does enable us to understand the present more clearly