Let me tell you why military engagement with Saddam Hussein’s regime in Baghdad is not only necessary and inevitable, but good. (Barnett 2003) The invasion of Iraq by the US and UK was the subject of a seemingly unending stream of official justifications. Careening through the media like so many crash-test dummies, they ranged from narrowly nationalist calls for self-defense to apocalyptically universalist speeches about ridding the world of evil. Giving coherence to these trial-and-error efforts at legitimation was a freshly explicit American unilateralism that unsettled global business elites as much as it inspired an emergent global peace movement. Attorney General John Ashcroft, for example, apparently upset many of the secular evangelists of globalization at the World Economic Forum by appearing as a newly authoritarian and US-centric incarnation of “Davos Man ” (Landler 2003). However, even as Bush-administration war promoters tussled with the great and the
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