So Doug, I don't think that your position is really so different from Carrol's. If Big Capital was really antiwar, they would be putting great pressure on the political class to stop the war. As far as I am aware, there have been no committees of "wise men" coming to the White House to tell Bush to cool it on Iran.
Jim F.
-- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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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