[lbo-talk] Wanted: A Major Division in the US Power Elite andRuling Class (was Curiosity)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 2 05:28:15 PDT 2006


On Oct 1, 2006, at 9:18 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote:


> Yoshie writes:
>
>> But they are all external constraints, which don't equal a major
>> division in the US power elite and ruling class.
> ========================
> And yet you say the Iranian and Nicaraguan Revolutions did provoke
> such a split in the US ruling class. I don't it recall the elite
> and the American people being as agonized or as divided then as
> they are now over the war in Iraq. This is the biggest foreign
> policy crisis the US has experienced since Vietnam

No kidding. Madeleine Albright, who's hardly a radical, describes the invasion of Iraq as the biggest foreign policy disaster in U.S. history. The Woodward book also suggests a major division. But the anxious sorts don't have much of a political vehicle to work with.

Doug



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