"a lot of world to subjugate" (from www.maxspeak.org)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 13 10:28:21 PST 2002


Peter K. wrote:


>This maybe true, but I doubt it. If it is it would be thanks to Osama.
>People seem to forget that Bush repeatedly said he was against
>nation-building during the 2000 campaign and Rumsfeld echoed
>this up until September 2001.

And what nation-building are they doing in Afg? A few hundred mill in aid, a "shambolic puppet government" (as Anatol Lieven put it in his interview with me last week) that controls a couple of cities, and whole regions under the control of nasty warlords.

Doug



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