> Looking back on the Iraq war from 10 or more years in the future it
> will
> be obvious that it was the U.S. not the Bush Administration which
> launched the war, and that it represented the best judgment of all
> concerned in 'ruling-class' politics of what was _needed_ to preserve
> u.s. hegemony.
How do you know this? Many, maybe even most, foreign policy pundits would disagree.
> Blaming Bush is a version of the cult of personality, no more
> intelligent, probably less intelligent, than other versions of that
> cult
> in other times or places.
>
> The War makes sense from the viewpoint of u.s. imperialism.
Now, even, that it's turned out a disaster? One that no less than Madeleine Albright called teh worst foreign policy disaster in US history?
> Placing the emphasis on Bush is simply another way of pimping for the
> Democratic Party and delaying the emergence of any real left in the
> u.s.
Isn't this just the negative of the impulse you're criticizing? Cult of personality, scapegoating, etc.? What evidence do you have that there are great untapped reservoirs of radical leftism lurking in the US pop?
Doug