[Peace-discuss] Major truth, completed

[C. G. Estabrook]

The point is that the paleo-conservatives, like the ones mentioned and in stark 
contrast to the neo-conservatives, DO NOT support "the imperialist agenda of 
Bush et al."

The subsidiary point is that the Congressional Democrats, with the exception of 
a few outliers who have no power, DO in practice support the imperialist agenda 
of Bush et al., as has become entirely clear since the 2006 election, even when 
they trumpet the failures of the administration successfully to enact that agenda.

One might argue that Kucinich and the few Democrat office-holders like him are 
an example of Marcuse's "repressive tolerance": they allow Mort and others to 
say, "See, there are some Democrats against the war" -- on the condition that 
they have no effect on policy! --CGE


Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> This paragraph illustrates why I have problems with Carl's arguments: He 
> homes in on specific groups/members, Democrats who are complicit in the 
> administration's machinations, but he fails to acknowledge that there 
> are many (most?) other Democrats who do condemn our government's 
> belligerent policies, while omitting mention of all the 
> paleo-conservatives and others on the right who totally support the 
> imperialist agenda of Bush et al.  This is a biased picture. --mkb
> 
> 
> On May 4, 2008, at 12:21 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>>
>> That's why, with few exceptions, we get principled opposition to war 
>> in Iran 
>>
>> (and Iraq and Afpak and Palestine) not from Democrats but from paleo-
>>
>> conservatives such as those around the journal American Conservative 
>> (and Ron 
>>
>> Paul). A notable recent example is Bill Kauffman's new book, "Ain't My 
>> America: 
>>
>> The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-
>>
>> Imperialism."  --CGE   
>>
> 
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