[lbo-talk] US Imperialism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Feb 6 23:09:16 PST 2007


On Feb 7, 2007, at 1:16 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> One thing that I always wondered about Doug's curious notion of US
> imperialism is that he seems to think it's a good deal for Japan and
> Europe but a bad enough deal for a wing of the US ruling class to
> create a "major division" among the US ruling class.

No part of the US ruling class is opposed to imperialism. I think, or hope, that there's a wing of the US ruling class that thinks we should get out of Iraq and forego an attack on Iran.

By the way, how'd the Brit ruling class come to understand that the empire was cooked?

Doug



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