"...So there is an imperial continuity, and I think it is far too easy to blame everything on Bush and Cheney. I mean they are a particular noxious pair of rulers, but they do not act alone. The American ruling elite is quite a large group, and though it was split on Iraq, the Democratic Party was not split. Its leadership totally supported bombing Iraq. Clinton was in Britain at a Labor Party conference, supporting Blair and saying why an attack on Iraq should be supported. Hilary Clinton supported the war on Iraq. Barack Obama is in favor of bombing Iran, Hilary Clinton is in favor of bombing Iran.
I mean if one were to be perfectly blunt, one would say that in the United States, we essentially have one party rule. There are two factions of one party - the republican faction and democratic faction. And in terms of imperial interventions and defending US interests abroad, there is not much difference. The differences are cosmetic. One likes to do it with a large coalition if it can be organized, and the other doesn't care whether there is a coalition or not...."
Shreeram
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:55 PM, "S K" <worldviewsblog at gmail.com> wrote:
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali on the breakup of Yugoslavia and its
> consequences
>
>
> http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/16560
> Tariq Ali on the breakup of Yugoslavia and its
> consequences<
> http://digg.com/world_news/Tariq_Ali_on_the_breakup_of_Yugoslavia_and_its_consequences
> >An
> interview with Tariq Ali conducted by Global Balkans in the fall of 2007
> that sets the context for the most recent developments in the politics of
> neoliberal transition and the new protectorate states in the post-Yugoslav
> Balkans, as well as examining the legacy of the Yugoslav wars on western
> military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the shifting
> alignments
> of the western and antiwar left.
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