America in Eyewrack, only Aristophanes could capture the strangeness of the US neoconservatives!
Donald Rumsfeld with Saddam Hussein, February 2003. The US, long engaged with Iraq, armed Iraq during the 8 year Iran-Iraq war. Oil drove the invasion of Iraq, 2003. The US did not understand Iraq which became patently obvious within 3 weeks of the illegal invasion. This photograph much used is deliberately out of focus. A European produced, elitist, twilight view of the modern world was allied to the sunny all-American politics of triumphal capitalism, cultural piety and fla