[lbo-talk] Isikoff Goes afer Saudis

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Apr 5 14:17:12 PDT 2004


Brad Mayer wrote:
>
> Just another front in The Holy Crusade. In case there are any doubts
> about the program:
>

I keep finding new occasions to 'apply' an apparatus I had rejected -- i.e., the base/superstructure metaphor. I think it applies here. Religion is _not_ a cause, though it may be the way in which _some_ of the agents dress the policies at issue. Perhaps even Bush himself -- but such motive-mongering and mind-reading is destructive of political analysis.

It's not Israel & religion that we need to explain: it's u.s. imperialism. Israel and religion are quite secondary.

Carrol



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