What melting? I see no resistence melting in Europe.
At 09:29 4/04/03 -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
>Although the USA has not admitted it, there is every likelihood that it
>destroyed Baghdad's electrical power station with the intention of
>making life unlivable. Today's newspapers are filled with reports that
>they intend to keep the city encircled while delivering punishing air
>strikes against the "enemy". In many ways, the scenario is beginning to
>look like Waco. In chiding critics of the war, Rush Limbaugh was quoted
>as saying that it took 51 days to storm David Koresh's followers, so why
>should we be impatient with Iraq.
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>Ironically, the crusade to liberate Waco was a humanitarian intervention
>project from the same Clinton administration that liberated Yugoslavia.
>Whatever ideological differences they had over abortion, the Bush
>foreign policy seems fairly consistent with what came before it. I have
>begun reading Diana Johnstone's "Fool's Crusade" and am more convinced
>than ever that the failure of the left to take a strong stand against
>NATO's mauling of Yugoslavia facilitated the new hegemonic drive of the
>USA. The melting of all resistance to the war in Iraq from France and
>Germany reminds us that this is basically an imperialist onslaught of
>the North against the South. Whatever the final outcome with the siege
>of Baghdad, the prognosis is continuing war and continuing resistance.
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