----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
Carl Remick wrote:
>Wake up and smell the empire. If the cultural revolution had
>amounted to anything, the US wouldn't be at war with the world now
>and an outrage to civilized people everywhere.
"The country is incomparably more civilized than it was 40 years ago."
- Noam Chomsky, not exactly a starry-eyed optimist
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The nightmare in Iraq and Afghanistan demonstrates that the USG is too incompetent to wage war against the world. It may be the case that the USG has already lost the rest of the possible non-nuke wars the lovers of thanatos plan for year in and year out.
Ian