[lbo-talk] Doomed: Letters from Third-World Leaders

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

William Blum reminds us that "[w]ith his recent letter to President
Bush, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has become part of a long
tradition of Third-World leaders who, under imminent military or
political threat from the United States, communicated with Washington
officials in the hope of removing that threat," such as Ho Chi Minh,
Cheddi Jagan, Maurice Bishop, Che Guevara, Hugo Chavez, and Saddam
Hussein ("Appealing to the United States Is Not Very Appealing,"
CounterPunch and Dissident Voice, 15 May 2006). In all cases, their
communication did nothing to change Washington's plan.

The only consolation is that the Vietnamese eventually succeeded in
making Washington withdraw its troops and abandon its proxies and that
the threatened governments of Cuba and Venezuela did survive
Washington's aggressions.

Will the Ahmadinejad administration and Iran?

If Fallujah is any indication, the Iranian people may have to brace
for what will befall them on November 8, the day after Election Day in
the United States.

-- 
Yoshie
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