[lbo-talk] The Iraq Policy of the U.S. Ruling Class

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Apr 8 16:32:10 PDT 2007


On Apr 8, 2007, at 6:56 PM, Carrol Cox quoted Noah Feldman, CFR's expert on the compatibility of Islam and democracy <http:// www.cfr.org/publication/9523/>:


> To do so, we need to
> avoid the kind of withdrawal that would allow Al Qaeda to claim
> victory
> while simultaneously precipitating a humanitarian crisis that would
> destabilize the region. We have no business starting wars we cannot
> bring ourselves to complete, but maybe we can bring ourselves to win a
> war we didn’t start.

Yeah, right. What do you expect from a guy who helped write the Iraqi constitution?

The U.S. is going to have to leave Iraq, somehow. You think it can just go on like this indefinitely, Carrol?

Doug



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