U.S. Writer Sontag Blasts Bush in Germany

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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.

stand up here

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

has always been controvesal I have loved her for many years

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.