Re: Bush Backs Away From 2 Key Ideas of Panel on Iraq
On Dec 8, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
The last time a wing of the US ruling class — Andrew Carnegie, above all — seriously lent a hand to the cause of anti-imperialism was the time of the Spanish-American War, the time when the United States of America, for the first time in its history, was about to become an empire.
Imperialism or anti-imperialism isn’t the issue; there’s no doubt
that everyone in the American r.c. is pro-imperialist. The question
is what kind of imperialism. Invading Iraq has been very bad for the
empire - as Henry Hyde put it yesterday, “We need to find a way to
get out of Iraq that doesn’t cover us with dishonor.” Not an easy
task, but I’m guessing that Hyde represents the thinking of the
governing class, and they need to make Bush come around.
Doug