[Marxism] Re: Tariq Ali on the US election

["Tom O'Lincoln" <suarsos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian wrote:
>>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<<

No doubt it could and Lou is right to mention LBJ. But in the case of
Blair, there was a particular factor at work IMHO: the global backlash
against American unilaterialism. In Britain and Australia (where I am)
this didn't stop governments lining up with the US, but it did mean
large sections of the population including the ruling class were hostile
to Bush and Rumsfeld from the start, for reasons that sometimes had
little to do with sympathy for the Iraqi people or peace sentiment per
se.


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