A kinder, gentler imperialism?

The piece I reproduced here on the peculiarities of the pro-war 'left' has washed up on some remote shores of the blogosphere - thanks to Septic Isle, Louis Proyect, and Adventures in Histomat for plugs. Adventures in Histomat has its own post up (click the hyperlink I just gave), which in a sense perhaps 'fills in' some of the gaps left by my account of pro-war 'leftism', by zeroing in on the imperialism of the Fabian 'socialists' one hundred years ago, and showing that this imperialism was a precursor to the antics of broken-down ex-lefties of today like Norm Geras and Christoper Hitchens. Check it out.