[lbo-talk] another DH loves BHO in Cairo

[Marv Gandall]

Both impulses feed off of and reinforce each other, no? Imperialist states
are inherently aggressive and their populations are infected by xenophobia
and militarism, particularly when they feel threatened. The reactionary Bush
administration aggravated these tendencies in the political culture in the
wake of 9/11. When it produced foreign policy defeats and instability which
exposed US weaknesses rather than strengths, the Bush administration was
forced to retreat and was subsequently replaced by an administration with a
better understanding of the limits of US power and a defter and more calming
political touch at home and abroad.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane Mage" <shmage at pipeline.com>
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Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] another DH loves BHO in Cairo


>
> On Jun 7, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
>>  ...the Bush administration, under intense pressure by the
>> terror-stricken and vengeful US population and itself driven to  respond
>> [against] the
>> organizers of the assault on the WTC and Pentagon...
>
>
> "Intense pressure?"  When it was the Bush Administration itself that  did
> everything it could (remember anthrax?) to make the population
> "terror-stricken and vengeful," just as it itself had made sure that  the
> provocation intended to create a terror-stricken and vengeful  population
> would have complete success?
>
> Shane Mage
>
>> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
>> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
>> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>>
>> Herakleitos of Ephesos
>
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