On 11/13/06, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> On 11/12/06, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Nov 12, 2006, at 10:26 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> > > the US ruling class
> >
> > What's that anyway? You seem to have a clear idea.
I think Doug must have been abused by his first-grade teacher and never
got chance to ask all the stupid questions that characterize that age.
The question wouldn't be stupid if Doug were interested in it and
wanted to lay down his own idea about it.
Anyhow, the Petras article has way too much emphasis on "the Jewish
lobby" and "Zioncons."
Commitment to Israel's security cuts across the party and ethnic lines
within the US power elite as well as the US ruling class, and they are
committed to it not for the sake of Israel but for the sake of the
American power elite fantasy about the Middle East. If there is any
difference among the power elite, it is between maximalists and
minimalists, between surrealists and realists, etc., and that
difference is a minor one, not a major one.
--
Yoshie
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