On Apr 9, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> Not necessarily; the U. S. "lost" the Vietnam war, and now Vietnam
> diligently provides cheap labor to enrich U. S. based multinationals.
Well yeah, that supports my point more than it does the U.S.-will- never-leave gang. What's really damaging to the empire is the constant bleeding - the sight of the U.S. military getting slowly hammered, and the increasing domestic discontent the war is causing. Carrol et al seem to think that withdrawal is impossible to contemplate, but it happened in Vietnam, and it's almost certain to happen in Iraq. And the empire survived, though it lacked a spring in its step for years afterward.
Doug