W's transcript

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Mar 8 12:41:37 PST 2003


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Are you really sure the U.S. political structure is (unlike the
>political structure of the Shah's Iran or of the Soviet Union immune to
>internal collapse under some external condtions? Give us a scenario for
>indeinitely continued U.S. stability, internally and externally.

Heavens no, anything can happen. In 1981, no one would have imagined the USSR would be gone a decade later. The roots of U.S. power are very deep, but nothing is forever.

Doug



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