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

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 9 09:21:16 PDT 2007


On Apr 9, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> The fundamental grounds upon which all leftists "soft on the DP" base
> their position is the charge that DP politicians are "cowards" --
> i.e.,
> the DP really has good principles but is simply afraid to back up
> those
> principles. Nonsense. They have firm principles: Imperialist
> Principles
> -- and they would rather lose elections than fail to support those
> principles.

This is true, but I think a lot of people in the higher circles are coming around to the view that the Iraq disaster is harming the imperium.

Doug



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