in fairness, doesn't Hizbullah have petrodollars from Iran to throw around, whereas Bush simply serves the oil industry and its allies? (Iran can use its petrocash for political purposes, since its government isn't a profit-maximizing entity the way corporations are.)
On 8/18/06, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wonder if a fundamentalist Christian living in flight-ravaged New Orleans would prefer a fundamentalist Muslim Hezbollah government or a fundamentalist Christian Bush administration? More than a year has passed and for many people in New Orleans the government has done little or nothing. Only a couple days passed before Hezbollah moved in and began acting. It may be that the US, fearing the ramifications of Hezbollah may actually move faster in Lebanon than in New Orleans. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com
-- Jim Devine / "While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser" -- Karl Marx
