[lbo-talk] Bush as Diversion

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Oct 23 17:24:34 PDT 2005


The core of my four posts on this subject is the following:

Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> But any
> serious left political thinking has to start by explaining what is
> becoming pretty obvious: The U.S. Ruling Class is overwhelmingly
> committed to this military adventure in Iraq.

My argument is that that commitment is evidence that u.s. troops stationed in Iraq is a central concern of u.s. policy, abroad and hence ultimately at home. Those who deny this seem to follow the rhetorical techniques of the ID folks -- picking holes in any explanation offered but being unable to offer a positive explanation if their own. The support for the policy is too widespread and too deep for it to be blamed solely or even mainly on Bush.

Carrol



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