[lbo-talk] Developments in the world economy and the conceptofforeign ownership

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 5/28/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On May 28, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
>
> > Were your examples above typically reservations expressed in
> > private or open
> > criticism of government preparations for war? In the case of Iraq,
> > I think
> > it's clear that the differences within the ruling class were openly
> > and
> > sharply expressed to an unprecedented degree, and not only from
> > opposition
> > Democrats, but more notably by Scowcroft and other veterans of the
> > Republican establishment.
>
> On WW I, I don't know; I'll ask my friend who's doing the diss on it.
> On the Civil War, it was all quite in the open - though once the
> South fired on the North, the NYC bourgeoisie turned into
> superpatriots and vowed to crush the slavocracy. On Iraq, much of it
> was in the open. The general principle, I think, is that capitalists
> usually defer to the state; they may not support a war before it
> starts, but once it does, it becomes part of the status quo.
>
> Iraq points to the problem I've been talking about for a while - the
> lack of a coherent ruling class in the U.S. today. How could they
> "stop" the war when Bush, Cheney & Co. were in control of the state.
> There are ways to destroy a leadership through scandal and general
> bad press, but once a war has started, no one wants the home team to
> lose - and it's not like they had an alternative roster and strategy
> in reserve.
>
> For someone practically on the belief that the Council on Foreign
> Relations is a major architect of U.S. foreign policy, it's quite
> something to hear the CFR audience and guests moan about the weakened
> role of the U.S. today. And for now, there's not much they can do
> about it.

You are a genius for coming up with non-problems.
-- 
Yoshie