[lbo-talk] Can Politics Be Liberated?

[BklynMagus]

> But I still think you could get further with the 
American public by saying it's not our business, 
and look what happened the last time the U.S. 
military tried to "export democracy."

I agree.  By appealing to the isolationist streak 
in American culture (both personal and political), 
you could help to move invading and/or attacking 
Iran off the radar.

I would say that most Americans do not like the 
idea of empire, but there was enough time between 
Vietnam and Iraq for people to forget about a 
protracted struggle, and with no mandatory draft 
the war is more abstract than if people's lives 
were suddenly and rudely interrupted.  Bring back a 
draft and the war would be over in a minute and Iran 
would be off the table.

Brian