> 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.
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The problem is that the US can bomb Afghanistan all it wants. But it can't
bomb Saudi Arabia. If Saudi Arabia were to become another Iran, what could
we possibly do about it? The biggest obstacle to Saudi Arabia falling is the
conservatism of its population, not American cruise missiles.
Seth