[Peace-discuss] James Petras fulminates…

[Morton K. Brussel]

Worth pondering. I would like to ask Petras whether would have  
preferred McCain.Palin to the here reviled Obama.

I asked a panel at the UFPJ, which  included Tom Hayden, why there  
were no real progressives nominated to Obama's team, and received no  
answer. I thought this was a gross omission, because it must have  
implications for the anti-war movement.

James Petras gives his interpretation of those implications. The  
panel at UFPJ were not willing to consider them.  (Maybe it was too  
late in a long session.) --mkb


Petras' conclusions are taken from the article at:
http://petras.lahaine.org/articulo.php?p=1766&more=1&c=1

…
Conclusion

Nothing speaks to Obama’s deep and abiding commitment to become the  
savior of the US empire as clearly as his willingness to appoint to  
the highest position of policy making the most mediocre failed  
politicians and generals merely because of their demonstrated  
willingness to pursue the course of military-driven empire building  
even in the midst of a collapsing domestic economy and ever more  
impoverished and drained citizenry.

Just as Obama’s electoral campaign and subsequent victory will go  
into the annals as the political con-job of the new millennium, his  
economic and political appointments will mark another ‘historic’  
moment: The nomination of corrupt and failed speculators and  
warmongers. Let us join the inaugural celebration of our ‘First Afro- 
American’ Imperial President, who wins by con and rules by guns!

December 2008
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