On May 23, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> Eh? How do you figure that? The subtext was that the invasion of Iraq
>> was in no small part responsible for the U.S.'s weakened political
>> position and the widespread antagonism towards us. Fixing that
>> situation, insofar as it can be fixed at all, requires making nice
>> with the rest of the world.
>
> It does not follow from this ("the invasion of Iraq was in no small
> part
> responsible for the U.S.'s weakened political") that the remedy is
> either to get out of Iraq or to make nice. It could just as well
> follow
> from it that it is necessary for the u.s. to invade both Iran and
> Syria.
> Many high-positioned supporters of the Vietnam War doubted that it had
> been a good idea to begin with. Many now doubtless feel that however
> stupid the Iraq invasion was, fleeing would be even worse.
Is the U.S. still in Vietnam? The stakes were so high, how could they have withdrawn?
Doug