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> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Michael Pollak
>
> > I would note that Stratfor's existence and anti-interventionism just
> > illustrates the point that there is a large business
> consistituency attuned
> > to opposing interventionism.
>
> Stratfor is by no means against intervention on principle. As Friedman
> told Doug in his interview, "We have nothing against imperialism." They
> like hegemony, and they continuously state their contrarian belief that
> the military dimension of international life is becoming more rather than
> less important relative to its economic dimension.
Sure. I should have said business constituency attuned to restrained and selective interventionism. But the point is that there is a whole class of business-based imperialists who saw no interests in Kosovo, which undermines the argument that this intervention was driven by such interests.
--Nathan