June 18, 2003

doin' it, yeah, doin' it

Cinderella provides this classic Adam Michnik quote, his own translation of an excerpt from this interview in Die Zeit:

Die Zeit: Juergen Habermas is of the opinion that the "normative authority of the USA" lies "in ruins". In the end wasn't this war really illegitimate, if no weapons of mass destruction are to be found?

Michnik: A counter-question: Don't you believe that a regime which rips its opponents' tongues out must be removed at any cost? Should we have waited until Saddam had these weapons in his hands for all to see? By the way, the same people who responded to our approval for the war by saying that there were other ways to deal with such dictatorships now have a great opportunity to try out their methods. In the case of North Korea, Paris and Berlin can now please show us how to remove totalitarian regimes in a more gentle way. Welcome to Pyongyang!


(Cinderella's caption quotes the same Shaggs song that mine does; his is more apt, but I figured, what the hell.)

UPDATE: More excerpts from the interview are here.

Posted by Dr. Frank at June 18, 2003 02:31 PM | TrackBack