Re: [Marxism] The very worst custodians of empire

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:59:57 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:

> Marvin:
>> So this week saw the administration from Dick Cheney
>> on down distancing itself from a proposal by former
>> Clinton defence officials William Perry and Ashton Carter
>> that the US threaten to destroy the North Korean Taepodong 2
> >missile on its launching pad before its test firing.
>
> Actually, the real motivation would seem to be that
> the threat would be empty since the US anti-ballistic
> missile defenses *do not work* according to just about
> everybody on the McLaughlin Report this morning, including
> the rightwingers. If the Korean missile was not shot down,
> the USA would look even more weak.

  That may be one of the reasons why the proposal cited by Marvin
Gandall calls for destroying the missile not in flight, but on the
launching pad, as one can read above.


Yours,
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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visit http://www.mlwerke.de Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotzki in German

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