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.
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> 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