Carl Dassbach wrote:
Did you really and honestly expect anything different????!!!!
That's a good question. Speaking for myself, I did think that he would try to pull out of Iraq now that the Shiites seem to be in control. The US is badly in need of investment funds right now and the occupation of Iraq is an unneeded expense.
However, the heavily militarized political culture of the US tends to militate against actions that are actually in the interests of the ruling class. I had a houseguest this week from Uganda who is very shrewd about American politics. When I discussed the seeming failure of the American ruling class to act in its own long-term interests, he had this apt one-word response: Brezhnev.
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