Barnor Hesse is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of East London. He is editor of Un/Settled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas, Entanglements, Transruptions (Zed Press, 2000).
Imagine this: its 11 August, 2001. The United States, following frustrated covert efforts to secure the capture of Osama bin Laden, sanctions an invasion of Afghanistan with the subsequent