So the problem with Bush, Cheney et al is that they were not imperialist enough? This is preposterous. Bush may be the village idiot, but he was an is the front man for a very definite imperial agenda. Cheney et al had and have a very clear imperial strategy for maintaining US world domination. The author seems to lament the contentious nature of US democracy, when in fact the Bush regime has been marked by the utter failure of "contentiousness" within the hollowed out US imperial "democracy."
Presumably, someone else (Hillary? Ian Masters, perhaps?) has a more nuanced, sophisticated and authentically imperial strategy for the US that will be more successful [although given the insoluble contradictions of the US empire, I doubt it]. Shouldn't we really be looking for an authentic, intelligent, sophisticated and effective anti-imperialism? --- In laamn@yahoogroups.com, Romi Elnagar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMHO This is one of the best overall analyses of the Bush Regime and well worth the time taken to read it. > Peace, > Hajja Romi > Put another way, the Bush administration was never able to define, shape, or direct in an "imperial" fashion the powerful forces, negative and positive, stemming from various segments of American society that do so much to determine the destiny of our planet. (This may have been inevitable, given the contentious nature of American democracy.) As for the once-dynamic duo who characterized much of this administration -- Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (and those clustered around their "offices") -- the only "empire" that really counted for them was the parochial world of Washington, DC, with its lobbyists, bureaucrats, politicians, and assorted supporting think-tankers, all absorbed in their petty turf-wars about who among them would get government money for their minions and projects, overseas or at home. This was the narcissistic province that the Vice President and Secretary of Defense had the urge to dominate with their "unitary > executive," "wartime," commander-in-chief presidency and the foreign wars that made it all possible. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
