On Oct 9, 2012, at 3:37 PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> No. International capital benefitted. It was NEVER "part of the plan" to
> secure Iraq (oil, customers, etc) for the United States (as was the case in
> the overthrow of Mossedegh). Capital has become thoroughly international.
> The U.S. is the primary enforcer for it.
This is one of the major points of Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin's new book - only it's not such a recent innovation. They argue that U.S. imperial design from the 1940s onward has been oriented toward the health of global capitalism and not the narrow national interests of the U.S.
Doug