On ABC world news tonight, the lead story was about how the "arms dealer" in the news yesterday was nothing of the sort. He was a failing textile merchant who was convinced by US agents to buy missiles that didn't exist and sell them to customers that did not exist. Reporter Brian Ross said that if it were not for the participation of the FBI, nothing would have happened.
Then, it gave a brief coverage of a press conference of Stan Goff's "Bring them Home" group.
Then, it moved on to a longer story about how US injuries were being under-reported in Iraq. Not only that, it described wounded men as "bitter" and "demoralized" and quoted a spouse of a GI who had his arm amputated after an RPG attack, who said that medical care was totally inadequate.
I strongly suspect that the tide is turning against continued intervention in Iraq. Columbia professor Nick De Genova was right. It will take something like another Mogadishu to stop the USA. He was tactless but correct.
Louis Proyect, Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
