[Peace-discuss] A RATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON OUR PRESENT CRISES, G. Kolko

[Morton K. Brussel]

For those who didn't attend Rashid Khalidi's talk this afternoon, you  
can turn to the article by Kolko, whose last paragraph says:

Communism is all but dead but the world's sufferings have, if  
anything, increased with the disappearance of what was the  
justification for the Cold War.  The resources that the US and  
mankind might have devoted to making peace and meeting rational human  
needs and desires have instead gone to preparing for and making war.   
Today we confront the indefinite prospect of war and human suffering  
on a vast scale-but this has also been the case for at least the past  
half-century.

The rest of the article is at

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2007-04/07kolko.cfm

Khalidi remarked that events transpiring recently, especially in the  
middle east, are ghosts of the cold war between the USSR and the USA,  
and outlined how the politics of the middle east and the US quest for  
domination there have developed. Kolko's analysis is somewhat  
different, but they come to similar conclusions on the basis of their  
knowledge of history.

--mkb
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