Re: [Marxism] Re: WTC collapse

["bob" <bobo926@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Think back to the summer of 2001. Was Bush capable of getting 25 ovations at
that time? Or was he on the ropes, tottering as he suffered losses and was
being torn apart in the press? If you'll recall, he had played his cards on
social security and taken a beating. The economy was coming apart.  The
press was riding him hard. His extended vacation made him look foolish. And
then came salvation.

There's so many conspiracies in cyberspace (ranging from the New World Order
to the Masons to the Illuminati to the assassination of Pope Paul I) that
it's rather easy to dismiss them all. And then there's 911...

We could easily just accept that the aftermath of 911 merely showed that
Bush and his crew were capable of taking advantage of an opportunity dropped
in their lap if there weren't so many holes in the government's version: a
conspiracy of 19 Arabs, none of whom had any experience flying jet planes
(and none of whom turned up on the passenger lists), and a half a dozen of
whom turned up alive, directed by a guy living in the mountains of
Afghanistan, eluding the armed might of the world's only superpower to make
a perfect strike against 2 specific buildings in NYC and leaving behind an
undamaged passport at the base of the buildings.

On another track -- would the anti-war movement have made a better choice if
it ignored the fact that the supposed Gulf of Tonkin incident was a fake? or
disregarded the Pentagon Papers?

Should we accept the explanation that Martin Luther King was killed by an
assassin operating on his own? Or that Bush made an honest mistake about the
WMDs? Or that the Commission that produced the Social Security Report
predicting its supposed future insolvency made use of realistic assessments
of economic growth barely half of that from the historical record from the
past century?

bob





----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition"
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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Re: WTC collapse


> "bob" wrote:
> > Before 911, Bush was a buffoon who worked only a few hours a day, took
> > month-long vacations, while watching his daughters get arrested for
> > substance abuse, losing battles with Congress over social security
> > privatization, with abysmal approval ratings, etc. After the 911 miracle
> > story, he became a world class military leader responsible for killing,
> > maiming and torturing tens of thousands, defying the laws as well as 225
> > years of US history, and is now the 're-elected' president posed to do
> > more harm.
>
> This misses the point entirely about Bush. You could have described Reagan
> in the same fashion, with his early signs of Alzheimer, his lies big and
> small, his court astrologer, etc. What Reagan had going for himself was a
> politician's instinct, a flair for demagogy, a supine Democratic Party and
> an absolute dedication to the interests of the class who backed him. This
> enabled him to roll back revolution in Central America and Africa, a much
> bigger threat to long-term imperialist interests at the time than the
> Taliban or al-Qaeda today. Because Bush and his cohorts were able to move
> so decisively in the aftermath of 9/11, it makes it tempting to
> hypothesize the attack as a Reichstag fire. If the Democrats were a
> genuine opposition party, the last 3 1/2 years would have looked a lot
> different. But they would have opposed Bush only if there were a powerful
> radical movement in the USA that threatened both parties in the street.
> Instead we had a DP that gave Bush 25 standing ovations during his State
> of the Union message just prior to invading Iraq. When you have this kind
> of opposition, no wonder the Commander in Chief can look so all-powerful.
> That's the kind of impression the Harlem Globetrotters used to make with
> an opposition of pretty much the same character.
>
>
>
> Louis Proyect
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