On Jun 24, 2009, at 3:37 PM, brad bauerly wrote:
> ow could Langley run Iran?
> Doug
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> The sameway that it does Mexico or S. Korea or Japan or India
> or....duh.
The U.S. runs Japan? Really?
Let's look at the four countries on this list. Mexico, well that one's pretty obvious - a country the U.S. has been pushing around for a long time. South Korea - well the U.S. does have almost 30,000 troops there, and bases, and stuff, but it's not exactly a colony in the sense that Mexico is. Japan - U.S. military presence, yes, but Japan is less a colony than Korea. Plus, Japan, like the other second-tier capitalist powers, has a real material interest in going along with the U.S., which takes on the expenses of stabilizing the system militarily and maintaining the global hierarchy; Japan does very nicely under U.S. domination, as do Canada and the EU. And India? Huh? Just how does the U.S. run India?
In any case, U.S power in Mexico is explained by proximity; in Japan and Korea, by the residue of earlier wars; and India, well, just how much power does the U.S. have in India? How could you extend this to Iran? Yeah, the U.S. destroyed Iraq, but it can't really rule it.
Doug