Re: As the dust clears

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:39 AM 9/13/01 -0700, you wrote:
> In all likelyhood, NMD will survive symbolically, but only symbolically. The
> real mobilization will have to be the labour intensive mobilization of a
> population. Spin doctors and high-tech toys are effective only in the
> de-mobilization of a population.

maybe, but the so-called "Vietnam syndrome" continues. That is, the US
elite has learned to try to avoid having even one US soldier killed. The
rest of NATO's elite seems to think in those terms, too. This encourages
high-tech (or high-altitude) war.

Maybe it's like a "falling rate of profit" story, in which the system is
pushed toward capital-intensive "solutions," even though they don't work
very well (as with high-altitude bombing of Serbia, which wasn't very
effective at winning the military part of the war).

BTW, I doubt that the citizens of the US will gain any kind of empathy for
the recent plight of the Serbians.

BTW2, Doug Henwood is doing fine (though his e-mail had been cut off).

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine