<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com href="mailto:andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com">andie nachgeborenen</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 08, 2003 2:23 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [lbo-talk] Iraq war "clearer" to Americans than WW 2</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>> I agree with that. Luke is (as usual) utterly wrong headed, but he does have the merit of posing > things with brutal simplicity. But I think you are mistaken about the failure of "the left: to pose > an alternative. We did, by and large: a world ruled by international law. </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Real international law (e.g. the sort that would make regimes like Saddam's crumble while preventing states like the US from taking the responsibility upon themselves) requires coercive power that no international body currently possesses a sufficient amount of.    </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Luke</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>