Re: [Marxism] Tariq Ali on the US election

[" Ian Pace" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect> Kerry will not carry on in the same way. He will carry on
like Clinton.
> When Clinton bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days straight, you could barely
> muster 30,000 people in Washington for a protest. That's what the ruling
> class wants, a "consensus" oriented politician who will make the world
> safe for George Soros's profits.
>
Just playing devil's advocate here - Blair has fought five wars in seven
years of being prime minister. While those in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq
Mark 1, and to some extent Afghanistan didn't elicit widespread protest, the
Iraq war produced the largest anti-war protest in living memory. Couldn't a
similar thing happen under Kerry (as we live in times of a certain modestly
heightened geopolitical consciousness than was the case through that
dreadful decade of the 1990s, the Clinton era)?

Solidarity,
Ian



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