That's what I am discussing: the duty of Americans to stop the US government from any regime change.
> It really is only for us to oppose aggression and to leave it up to the
> masses of each country to endorse or reject their own governments and
> otherwise settle accounts with them. I don't think you'd find any
> disagreement on the list about this.
A question is often asked: do we recognize Israel's right to exist? A question that ought to be asked is, do we recognize any other government's right to exist, aside from the Israeli government's, the US government's, and perhaps also the OECD governments'?
The US government's standing policy is to have hundreds of military bases around the world, spend billions of dollars annually on preparatory work for regime change (often in the name of "democracy assistance"), and put half the world under its unilateral sanctions (cf. <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20060904/017045.html>) from severe to mild. Is there consensus on the broadly defined left that we must put an end to that standing policy? I don't think so. The question is how we go about creating that consensus first of all on the broad left, beyond die-hard anarchists, pacifists, and Marxists (who together may amount to about 50,000 or so). Opposing a big invasion alone won't do.
Now is a good time to take a step toward creating consensus against regime change, not just war, while Americans are still a little bit chastened by the Iraq War. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>