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Loading... The President of Good and Evilby Peter Singer
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Scathing indictment of George Bush and the government he leads via a careful dissection of Bush's own words and policies. Singer's compelling and logical examination exposes the truth of the hypocrisy, arrogance and disdain for rule of law which characterises the Bush government. A great book. ( )Bulletin: the scruffy, bespectacled “ethicist" and apostle of animal rights and infanticide is . . . a Bush Hater. In The President, Singer disingenuously puts on the air of attempting to be evenhanded while uncritically accepting discredited liberal tropes concerning the War On Terror and other matters--that Joseph Wilson was a disinterested truth teller, that Saddam Hussein had no meaningful ties to terrorists, etc. There is also something distinctly fishy about an admitted radical utilitarian giving such short thrift to the argument that deposing one of the most lethal tyrants of the last fifty years might just represent an advancement of the greater good. A sort of climax in inane analysis is reached when Singer implies that Bush is a Christian heretic (he is really a Manichaean!) for believing that the War On Terror is a battle between good and evil. Singer is a grotesque. His most recent book shows that he is also intellectually dishonest and a bit off his head. no reviews | add a review
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