[lbo-talk] Empires' Development Economics (Coming Around to His Father's Thinking)

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sat May 28 02:53:04 PDT 2005


--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: Who said that such a regime would be viable or that Washington could pacify Iraq? If Washington had wanted a stable Iraq, it would have lifted its economic sanctions on it and encouraged American investors to compete with French, Russian, and other investors for a chance to invest in its oil industry, instead of starving and then invading the country.

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If Washington doesn't want to pacify Iraq, why are there US troops there? If the goal was just to wreck Iraq, that mission is accomplished. Why don't the troops leave then?

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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