It seems that the "default" position of DP politicians is what used to be called "Cold War liberalism" --muscular foreign policy plus technocratic welfare state policies. JD Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: michael perelman <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:56:26 To: Progressive Economics<[email protected]> Reply-To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Was Libya attacked because of its attitude toward AFRICOM? He wants to show that he is tough. His US credentials for toughness is his heroic battle against Dennis Kucinich. On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 21, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > >> But, why did Carter not challenge the Vietnam syndrome, while Reagan >> did? Perhaps that has something to do with the different social >> forces that find *political* expression in the two parties. > > So why does Obama have no trouble challenging Iraq syndrome? He's escalated > one war and started a couple of others all on his own. > > Doug >_______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ 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
