1.0 link 48368 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bromwich/blairs-kaleidoscope_b_48368.html "The kaleidoscope has been shaken," Tony Blair told a Labour Party conference in October 2001. "The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order the world." Those should have been astonishing words. George W. Bush had already pledged "to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil" -- all the evil in the world, vanquished at a sweep. Blair spoke more softly but betrayed an appetite just as fierce: the craving of the technocrat and the aesthete to...

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