This is silly. The "other capitalist nations" for the most part did not support the Iraq War. The "other capitalist nations" (actually, "all nations regardless of political and economic system") supported the Afghanistan War either because it did not concern them one way or the other (so why not support it), or because they were threatened by the Taliban, such as Russia, Iran, China, and every neighbor of Afghanistan.
News Flash: The Afghan War is not about The Man trying to stick it to the masses. The US has no geopolitical interest in Afghanistan.
--- On Sun, 6/7/09, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> From: Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] another DH loves BHO in Cairo
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, June 7, 2009, 2:09 PM
> On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:42:57 -0500
> Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > [wrt Iraq and Afghanistan]
> > The U.S. is _acting_ like a World Cop, and other
> capitalist nations
> > (core and would-be core) are (and have been) going
> along.
>
> Going along, sure, no disagreement there. But with what
> degree
> of enthusiasm? I don't pretend to know. It's not hard to
> imagine,
> though, that Bearzilla's masters may be enjoying some
> Schadenfreude
> at seeing the US caught in the same trap that the US
> inveigled the
> Sovs into back in the Sunday school class of Jimmy Carter.
>
>
> The picture that's slowly coming into focus in my head is
> of a
> heterogeneous international elite class. Its various
> components
> have different interests and sometimes have to depend on
> different
> state structures -- one could think of these dependencies
> as
> illiquid investments, perhaps.
>
> But of course they also have a great deal in common. For
> example,
> they all live by exploiting the rest of us in one way or
> another.
>
> The net is that they don't behave as if they had some
> rational
> farsighted oversoul or general will. They're more like one
> of those
> multicellular organisms without a central nervous system --
> a
> Portuguese man-o-war, perhaps. Quite a successful organism,
>
> you know -- they've been around for a while.
>
> The various tentacles drift with the current. When one of
> the
> nematocytes touches something, it stings it. The jellyfish
> doesn't
> plan or strategize or set a course. It has a sail, but it
> doesn't tack or gybe. It doesn't resent insults or *decide*
> to sting
> you when you brush against it. But you get stung all the
> same.
>
> All this is quite unintelligent but works pretty well for
> the
> jellyfish.
>
> --
>
> Michael Smith
> mjs at smithbowen.net
> http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org
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