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> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org
> [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 10:45 PM
> To: lbo-talk
> Subject: [lbo-talk] leftist coca farmer in lead
>
> [Kinda funny that while Bush is preoccupied with his lunatic
> adventure in Iraq, he's losing Latin America.]
>
> Exit polls put leftist coca farmer in the lead of Bolivia's
> presidential Sun Dec 18, 6:42 PM ET
See also http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456942/html/nn1page1.stm
That is probably the best outcome of his presidency - running the empire aground. No Democrat would ever do it.
The concept of the leader breaking the empire from within by leading it to lunatic military adventure reminds me of a certain protagonist from the Romantic period in the Polish literature - Konrad Wallenrod, a Lituanian child seized by the Teutonic order, rising withing the order's ranks to the leadership position and finally destroying it by reckless military adventure. http://www.nhh.no/geo/gib/gib1998/gib98-2/node3.html
Poetic justice for the empire?
Wojtek