(Posted by John.)
There's a lot that I agree with in Michael Berubé's post here on the "sovereignty left", but I think this is actually an easy question to answer:
And it is in both camps' interest to pretend that Kosovo, Afghanistanand Iraq were all part of the same enterprise: all three wars were warsof liberation for the Hawks, and all three were exercises inimperialism for the Sovereignty Left. The Hawks wound up agreeing, inwhole or in part, with Bush's premise that Iraq was the next logicalfront in the War on Terror. And the Sovereignty Left has never quiteexplained what American empire was established in the Balkans, and they’ve never quite explained why they opposed the Taliban from 1996 to 2001 but opposed the Taliban’s removal after al-Qaeda’s strikes against the US. But both groups share the common goal of aligning supporters of war in Kosovo and Afghanistan with supporters of war in Iraq.
