underestimates?

[Juan Jose Barrios]

yeap, but OTOH, (during the Gulf war for example), I never felt that the
war could actually reach this part of the world (Uruguay, South
America). Now, it  is a real possibility with potential bad consequences
for the US should "an accident" happens here or close to here. Besides,
did you witnessed the same kind of reaction from countries such as
Pakistan, Indonesia, etc, during the Gulf war?.

Doug Henwood wrote:


> Max Sawicky wrote:
>
> >But in the main I think Mark underestimates
> >the power of the Admin and its allies to
> >cope with OBL et al.
>
> I'm coming around to thinking you may be right. Fisk et al are
> confident that the war will backfire on the U.S. - that the
> Arab/Muslim masses, unable to take it anymore, will explode and take
> down the Pakistani and Saudi regimes. Maybe. But haven't we heard
> similar things in the past? There were a lot of arguments like that
> in the Gulf War too. Very often, violent repression works. The U.S.
> sustains its imperial power in part by its willingness to commit
> extravagant excesses of violence. Someday it won't work, but it has
> plenty of times in the past.
>
> Doug