unfortunately or fortunately, there are contradictions within the Bush Coalition. The green-lighting of Israel's invasion of Lebanon doesn't fit well with stabilizing oil prices. But it does serve other constituencies.
I think one thing about the the Bush people is that they like the arrogant swagger of the Israeli generals and spokespeople and try to imitate it. I think they employ much the same rhetorical tricks and dodges, including playing the victim card as often as possible. This reminds me of a fascistic novel I read perhaps 30 years ago (about a coup d'état in the U.S., a fascinating topic to me) The eye-patched Israeli general (based on Moshe Dayan) received reverence akin to that given a god. I wish I knew the author and title, since it would be interesting to see the ideological links between that book, Timothy McVeigh, and Bush. In some ways, the 2000 selection was like a coup. On 8/6/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/6/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A country such as the US wants to > avoid undue fluctuations of its price, to avoid (1) having the price > rise too high, disrupting industrial economies, especially those > addicted to oil such as the US; The present administration obviously has failed to listen to you, for it keeps making war and destablizing countries in the Middle East! And the worst, for the purpose of stabilizing oil prices, has yet to even happen: huge blowbacks in the Gulf states. I can't wait! -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
-- Jim Devine / "War is the health of the state" -- Randolph Bourne
