[lbo-talk] so the U.S. will never leave Iraq?

[Carrol Cox]

Never is a long time -- but I believe a remark by Kenneth Burke I quoted
earlier applies here. He noted that when FDR came out with a blast
against the "Financial Royalists" he (KB) was confident the banks were
safe.

What Congress does or say is irrelevant until they focus their attention
on the billions being spent to build permanent bases in Iraq.

U.S. troops will not leave willingly under this or the next
administration.

This is why leftists ought to participate actively in building local
anti-war groups. The Occupation will last long enough and remain
unpopular enough for those groups to be _one_ of the foci of a new
national left. We have made some rather startling breakthroughs recently
here in B/N. Good things should happen elsewhere if leftists keep their
noses to the grindstone on this.

Carrol