Someone should introduce a new dictum here and I thought why not: there is no free bombing. Like there is no free lunch. All one has to do is ask iraqi lefties who thought the american bombardmadment was supposed to save them. I'll just tell of one instance. I met an iraqi chap (marxist) who as a student went to join the fighters in kurdistan to free his country of saddam. He said he could not stay, the place was full of US and western intelligence agents, so fearing for his life as marxist of the trotskyte colour, he fled. After american liberation he went back to see his family and friends, and on the way back he died in the taxi cab near the syrian border when american planes bombed them. I later learnt that the cab did not take a dirct hit but as the american planes bombed near the taxi, the driver lost control of the car and the student I knew was the only casualty. The other passengers survived to tell.
Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: >On 3/28/11 8:47 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: >> All that needs to be said about this new criminal aggression can be found in >> the last chapter of a book written 8 years ago, Ellen Meisins Wood, The >> Empire of Capital. The last chapter is entitled "Endless War." This is just >> another of the wars needed to discipline nations or governments that >> interfere for any reason with the smooth operations of global business. > >The Scotsman, March 28, 2004: > >IT was only lunchtime but the whisky and gin were flowing from the >British Embassy in Tripoli last Thursday. Fresh camels’ milk and water >had been on offer outside Colonel Gaddafi’s tent, and the returning >diplomats went straight for something stronger. > >The mood was of mild but universal shock. Even those who had for weeks >recited the political rationale of the meeting found themselves stunned >at the sight of a British prime minister lunching with one of the >world’s most notorious dictators. > >Tony Blair called it extending the “hand of partnership.” For one >embassy guest, this was more than a soundbite: Malcolm Brinded, Royal >Dutch/Shell’s head of exploration, had just signed a GBP 110m deal to >hunt for gas off Libya’s coast. > >Britain’s diplomatic invasion of Libya last week was a superbly >orchestrated coup which has stolen a march on America. In the 15 weeks >since Gaddafi agreed to surrender his nuclear and chemical weapons >programme, London has not missed a beat. > >While Washington has refused to lift trade sanctions and boasts about >“moving the goalposts”, Blair has succeeded in positioning Britain’s >defence industry alongside Libya while returning Shell to the country >after a 30-year absence. > >This is neither a fortuitous side-effect nor a cynical attempt to make >money. Blair last week deployed a carefully crafted model where business >is the agent of regime change. It was peace, tailor-made for a country >with 30 billion barrels of proven oil reserves. >_______________________________________________ >pen-l mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
