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> On Aug 18, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> > Nothing has come so close to make me weep as the stubborn
> > insistence of lbo-posters that the policies of the Bush Administration
> were
> > stupid.
>
> Yeah, I know you feel this way, but you could make an argument from a
> purely bourgeois POV that they were very stupid. Bush left the U.S. deep in
> debt, helped contribute to the worst economic crisis in 80 years,
> demonstrated to the world the limits of U.S. military power, weakened the
> prestige of the country in a purely imperial sense, and made things in Iraq
> far worse than the would have been without his war.
> So, yeah, if I'm a serious bourgeois, I'd call them stupid.
>
The only way I could see it as an upside for the bourgeoisie is as a very crafty plan to make the approach of the Clinton era's "peace and prosperity" (as in that classic Onion headline "Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'") look good in comparison.
Joel Schlosberg
Doug
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