[lbo-talk] get ready for Pres Clinton - again!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Nov 5 07:07:59 PST 2007


On Nov 5, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> But what evidence is
>> there that Wall Street and the Fortune 500 are lobbying for a cruise
>> missile attack on Iran.
>
>
> What evidence is there that Wall Street and the Fortune 500 are
> lobbying
> AGAINST a cruise missile attack on Iran?

There is none. Who said there was? In fact, I said this in the sentence *just before the one you quoted*:


> Don't get me wrong, I don't see any evidence that capital is
> particularly antiwar, either.

The point I'm trying to get at - I don't know what, if any point, you're trying to get at - is that political initiatives often don't come from capital, but from the political class.

Doug



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