Similar point about Iraq. The main strategic objective is to perpetuate irrational, undemocratic, fractious cultural politics in Oilsville. Sure, the U.S. would love to end up with ticker tape parades and a compliant and stable puppet regime, but it's the stirring of the pot that's the more important objective.
End of warfare, my butt!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of Carl Remick
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 8:04 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] The end of warfare?
>
> >From: joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net>
> >
> >"Against the most heavily armed opponent in the history of War, Fallujah
> >has still not let itself be "taken" to date. The mightiest military
> machine
> >in history has met its match. A turning point in military affairs? The
> end
> >of warfare, as practiced by the Americans - the application of
> overwhelming
> >force to obtain a victory?"
>
> I've seen this movie before. However clichéd it may be to compare Iraq to
> Vietnam, the fact is that the US *is* acting out its fantasies of power in
> Iraq in the same way it did in Vietnam, and once again it is getting its
> tuchus handed to it. Unfortunately, the US didn't learn any lesson 30
> years
> ago and doesn't seem likely to learn any this time either. We'll just go
> back to the lab for a few years to figure out more ingenious, spectacular
> and "precise" ways to inflict pain and death, and presto, the US will be
> out
> democratizing the world again through main force better than ever.
>
> Carl
>
>
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