Re: Beyond Quagmire

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/16/07, soula avramidis <soulaavramidis2002@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> there is quite a difference bwteen analytical rationality what elites debate
> and waht happens on the ground. the same could be said for any other
> american war.  one is not to confuse or conflate the views of the few and
> juxtapose those to the way a process eveolves.

Right.

> in the case of iraq and nam
> and korea wars redressed balance of forces disequilibria in a continum
> called histroty in which the grave diggers of impeiralism need just a little
> nudge to get their act into shape to bring the whole edifice of capitalism
> down. a sytem that since 1929 been living on borrowed time.

capitalism is on the verge of collapse, living on borrowed time???
that's news to me. Even if we have a replay of the 1930s on a world
scale, capitalism won't permanently collapse until there is a
world-wide mass movement ready to replace capitalism with something
else. We don't even have "actually-existing socialism" any more
(except in two small countries).

>  the invasion of
> iraq was contemnpplated by american circles early in the cold war. even
> Chirchil said of iraq and i paraphrase "it is a great catch where there
> plaisn to rasie livestock.. oil" if it was not for the soviet union iraq
> would have styaed an anglo american colony.

sure, the Anglo-American elites want to dominate the world. But did
they want the chaos now seen in Iraq?
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Jim Devine / "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank Lloyd Wright