>Re: speculation about the bluster from W today, maybe the 'chaos' is just
>what the Bush gang needs to maintain the permanent "war on terror"? if
>anything they've gone from ignoring it to almost embracing it. maybe he
>actually meant it when he said bring it on, since it could benefit his
>reelection chances as the permanent warrior?
Quoting from my interview with Slavoj Zizek in LBO #105 (which, by the way, has generated lots of extreme responses, from admiration to hatred):
>What I'm really afraid of is that when we left-wingers ask, "is
>America aware that in this way they are only creating new tensions?"
>they miss the point. What if the aim is to introduce instability to
>the entire region and then to brutally impose some kind of
>universalized emergency state or new order? But even if the U.S. is
>consciously counting on the global disorder, it will not be able to
>control it.