Carrol Cox wrote:

> I realize no one on lbo-talk would agree with Kipling's argument as
> expressed a century ago. But whatever the intentions of those who hope
> that the u.s. government might do "something good" in Iraq, in practice
> that position is a repetition in new dress of Kipling's world view.

Surely there are people on this list and elsewhere who believe in the "civilizing mission" of "Marxism-Leninism" in the "Third world".

Ulhas