Freedom Fire

"When Bush celebrated the explosive and irrepressible [Iraqi] thirst for freedom as a “fire in the minds of men,” the unintended irony was that he used a phrase from Dostoevsky’s The Possessed. Dostoevsky used the phrase to describe the ruthless activity of radical anarchists who burned a village: “The fire is in the minds of men, not on the roofs of houses.” Today, we already see—and smell—the smoke of this fire."


 -Slavoj Zizek's "The Not-So-Quiet American" for InTheseTimes.com