[lit-ideas] The supergun that couldn't shoot straight
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 22:56:24 -0700 (PDT)
The US has not learned anything from 55 years of
foreign-policy debacles. Even now, at the same time it
is enmeshed in the very trap it laid for the Soviets
in Afghanistan, and is bogged down in Iraq in a replay
of Vietnam, it is rattling sabers at Iran. One reason
Kolko gives for the United States' failing to heed
what history is telling it is that its wealth and
military power enable it to continue making the same
mistakes - though not indefinitely. It also has a
massive military-industrial empire to which it is
beholden for domestic political reasons. Kolko has
much to say on the latter subject, including the need
of successive US administrations to play the fear card
to justify staggering military budgets (the pet
anti-ballistic-missile shield project has cost US$70
billion to develop, and will cost another $60 billion
to deploy - and it does not even work).
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HE03Aa02.html
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