[lbo-talk] Bush Backs Away From 2 Key Ideas of Panel on Iraq

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 12/8/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 8, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > The last time a wing of the US ruling class -- Andrew Carnegie, above
> > all -- seriously lent a hand to the cause of anti-imperialism was the
> > time of the Spanish-American War, the time when the United States of
> > America, for the first time in its history, was about to become an
> > empire.
>
> Imperialism or anti-imperialism isn't the issue; there's no doubt
> that everyone in the American r.c. is pro-imperialist. The question
> is what kind of imperialism. Invading Iraq has been very bad for the
> empire - as Henry Hyde put it yesterday, "We need to find a way to
> get out of Iraq that doesn't cover us with dishonor." Not an easy
> task, but I'm guessing that Hyde represents the thinking of the
> governing class, and they need to make Bush come around.

There's no way to get out of Iraq that doesn't cover Washington with
dishonor.  There's no "they" among the US power elite who will do it
for us, it being the US withdrawal minus US bases and a pro-Washington
and pro-Tel Aviv government in Iraq, and the sooner Americans
understand it, the better.
-- 
Yoshie
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