> My own view is a little different. I see the elites as a loose
> collection of loose factions and groupings, some ad-hoc, some more
> durable. The actualities of year-to-year policy, in this view, result
> not from some transcendent capitalist rationality but from a process
> of improvisation, negotiation, and horse-trading.
Wouldn't it be pretty far-fetched, then, to think that one loose faction would be able to slip a little thing like the Iraq invasion past all the other factions - unless the other factions liked the idea for their own separate reasons?
SA