From: "Dave Bedggood" <dr.bedggood-AT-auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 20:26:28 +0000
Subject: Re: SV: M-TH: Iraq will be bombed


Yeah, I think your right.
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> > Fr=E5n: Dave Bedggood <dr.bedggood-AT-auckland.ac.nz>
> > Till: marxism-thaxis-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
> > =C4mne: Re: M-TH: Iraq will be bombed
> > Datum:  den 18 februari 1998 15:06
> > 
> > Further to Hugh's comments, the likelihood of a bombing is growing 
> > the more the US feels its able to get by without the Security 
> > Council and the more support it gets from its allies. Having used the 
> > UN as a front for its operation last time and partially exposed the 
> > UN as a stooge police force in the process, the US is now almost 
> > confident enough to push ahead by itself.
> > The decision of  the UK, Canada, Australia, and NZ to back the US 
> > strike,  shows that the US has a second rank of minor imperialist
> >  and white-settler semi-colonies that it can rally to its hegemonic new 
> > world order. Its military power is so overwhelming there is no chance 
> > of being faced down as there was during the cold-war.
> > The link between a  crusade against  Saddam and the radicalising Arab 
> > masses,  and  wrapping up Asia is clear. Having taken on the role of 
> > world policeman again, the US can prop-up the tottering Tiger regimes 
> > and put a hell of a lot of pressure on China to open up on the US 
> > terms. In the mid-East the US is doing no more than protecting its
> existing
> > stake by "stabilising" the region, in Asia, much more is at stake with
> the
> > billions in China and India about to follow the path of the Tigers into
> the
> > maw of mammon.
> > Dave.
> 
> Dave, I just did a half hour oprogram for straightfacts and I said far more
> then you imply above. I think it quite clear that the American ruling class
> no longer needs the UN as a post war instrument and is heading towards
> either destroying the UN or making it a pliable tool in order to move
> forward their positions as new imperialist rivalries deepen..
> 
> The UN in fact was and instrument for the cold war and relationship of
> power coming out of the forces that be after the second world war. It is no
> longer a viable tool in the hands of imperaialism with the death of the
> Sooviet union..
> 
> In fact the english speaking country alliance for this new attack goes
> along the lines of pre world war two politics..
> 
> Warm regards
> Bob
> 
> warm regards
> 
> 
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