Tortured liberalism. posted by Richard Seymour

Rejoice, rejoice, for I am arisen! Anyway. Aaronovitch Watch has an excellent series of posts critiquing Paul Berman's obsequious, trite, facile smear against the left, Terror and Liberalism. I don't quite know how the author of the posts found the time and energy not to simply feed the volume to a shredding machine and allow a pet hamster to use the remains as bed-cum-lavatory. (S)he seems to have decided that since a number of liberals, not least Nick Cohen, cite the book as having transformed their view of terrorism, Islam and war, it might be worth checking it's sources. And do you know, by the very arse of crikey, it looks like we can rest assured in the knowledge that Berman is more or less what we thought he was: a glib intellectual conman whose relationship with the truth is about as amicable as that between the Prime Minister and his Chancellor.