<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">A matter important enough that tame intellectuals spend time mystifying the facts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The war launched by Israel in 1967 had at least three long term and interrelated consequences:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Secular Arab nationalism was destroyed, and resistance to imperialism in the region passed to religious authorities (the reason that Israel secretly aided the rise of Hamas). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. Israel became the principal US client in the Mideast, a “stationary aircraft carrier’ for US control of the region and its resources, principally energy.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3. US effective control of oil flows in the region gave it an unparalleled weapon to the US to control oil-deprendent economies, especially in Asia.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Such “off-shore control” as the Pentagon called it made direct military domination of SE Asai less necessary, and allowed the US to begin extricating its troops form Vietnam, the political price for which was becoming too high in the US. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The US won the Vietnam war by killing millions of people. Not that its maximum war aims were achieved but that it destroyed ‘the threat of a good example’ - a third-world country that could run its economy for the benefit of its people rather than the profits of the American 1% - and a model for the countries in the region. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—CGE</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 7, 2017, at 9:21 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]-->
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But it's interesting that the majority of the commenters do a decent job of deconstructing his nonsense, especially when they are able to move beyond raging against Trump.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><a class="enhancr2_fbba7d98-f39e-5fc8-8b68-4685bfee0212" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488895427154_12792" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/opinion/americas-case-of-tonkin-gulfitis.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0"><div class="">America’s Case of ‘Tonkin Gulfitis’</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488895427154_12835" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488895427154_12884" class=""><br class=""></div></a><div class=" ymail-preserve-class ymail-preserve-style yahoo-link-enhancr-card" id="enhancr2_fbba7d98-f39e-5fc8-8b68-4685bfee0212" style="max-width:400px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 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