U.S. Writer Sontag Blasts Bush in Germany

[Resistance Is Futile]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3252468,00.html

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - New York-born author and human rights activist Susan Sontag on Saturday criticized President Bush's policies as imperialistic and a break with 50 years of U.S. foreign policy tradition.

``I think as long as the USA has only one political party - the Republican Party, a branch of which calls itself the Democratic Party - we aren't going to see a change of the current policy,'' she said.

``It's really the end of the republic and the beginning of the empire,'' she said, referring to ancient Rome.

Sontag also had harsh words for California governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying his election showed that traditional politics are disappearing.

``We are in a new civilization, a post-political civilization,'' she said.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. criticism is increasing and it is high time we all

stand up here

[SpiralHawk]

2. Whoa ! "a post-political civilization"

Wonder just what she means by that trenchant phrase? It fairly sets the mind to reeling.

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. Susan Sontag

has always been controvesal I have loved her for many years

[bemildred]

4. Ms Sontag is a radical.

In the original meaning of the word.

She is willing to put it all on the table in an
attempt to make something better than the current
neanderthal "system". I suppose I should apologize
to the memory of the Neanderthals.

She means a civilization in which politics is no longer
important. That is indeed something that needs to be chewed
over for a while to start to make sense.