[lbo-talk] mothers for war

[Steven L. Robinson]

Doesn't the same apply to the US - with a vengeance?  Obviously the US is a bigger country than the Israeli state, but not without its own linits in grasp.  We have an expanding arc of war in the Middle East of which  Lebanon is but a side show, especially if the US chooses to attack Iran. At least the Israelis know they have something to lose. The Bushies and the rest of the US elite believe American powere is invincible and seem to want to throw the US weight around whenever possible.  I fear that it will take nothing less than a nuclear showdown with China to put some sense into the heads of US leadrrs  and by then, it may be too late. SR  

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From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> 


> Worse than useless, this overwhelming military power. 
> As Chomsky has insisted over the years, this strategy 
> is a suicide pact. If there is not real peace based on 
> hostile but polite respect for everyone's sovereignty 
> with Israel entirely inside the Green Line, it's only 
> a matter of time till someone on the other side brews 
> up something really nasty, chemical, biological, or 
> nuclear, that will real annihilate Israel or enough of 
> it so that it makes no difference, to which Israel 
> will respond with the Samson option, blowing up the 
> Arabs and Iranians with its nuclear weapons in its 
> dying spasm. By that time the Iranians should have 
> the bomb, which the Pakistanis already do, and they 
> might take it ill to see their fellow Muslims 
> incinerated en masse. You don't have to be a genius 
> to see where this is going. Any other alternative to 
> real peace does not exist. If the Israelis choose to 
> continue the path of war, this catastrophe will happen 
> within our lifetimes, it is quite manifest. Maybe even 
> my lifetime. I have no particular hope that the 
> Israelis will do anything else. If they are determined 
> to commit suicide and the US will not make them behave 
> by cutting their aid (fat chance), what forces tend 
> the other way? 
> 
> --- Dwayne Monroe wrote: 
> 
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