[Marxism] Bush's obscene tirades

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu

Chomsky and History



The core is this, Vietnam was a demonstration war, and the u.s. could
achieve its vital aims merely by doing an immense amount of damage, even
though it was forced to withdraw militarily.

The Iraq war is for a definite goal, the permanent location of a u.s.
military force in the Mideast. This explains the substantial unity of the
u.s. ruling class behind Bush's War, however discontent many members of that
class may become with Bush's bungling leadership. Much more, then, is at
stake in the present war than was ever at stake during the Vietnam, and we
should keep this in mind in our thinking about building resistance to the
war.

Carrol

^^^^^

CB: I agree on the stated goal of the current war. However, for
imperialism's survival, containment and maiming of socialist oriented
national liberation movements was as important then , as military occupation
of the Middle East is now. There remains quite a bit of imperialist
occupation of the globe leftover from the Cold War, including hot wars in
the Cold War as in Korea.


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