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In 2007-2008 I, in vain,
attempted to put some energy into analyzing the blossoming American presidential
campaign since it was to be, as advertised at least, a watershed election, for
women, blacks, old white anglos, latinos, youth, etc. In the event I had to
abandon the efforts in about May of 2008 when it became obvious, in my face
obvious, that the election would be a watershed only for those who really
believed that it would be a watershed election. The four years of the Obama
presidency, the 2012 American presidential election campaign, and world
politics have only confirmed in my eyes that that abandonment was essentially
the right decision at the right time. In short, let the well- paid bourgeois
commentators go on and on with their twitter. I, we, had (have) better things
to do like fighting against the permanent wars, the permanent war economies,
the struggle for more and better jobs, and for a workers party that fights for
a workers government . More than enough to do, right? Still a look back at some
of the stuff I wrote then does not a bad feel to it. Read on if you like
************Pulling the Hammer Back on Iran
Anyone who thinks that we do
not live in nightmarish times-think again. The latest news out of Washington is
that the Bush Administration has decided to pull the hammer back on Iran. For those
without a sense of recent history that means the trigger is ready to be pulled.
Bush proposes a series of unilateral actions under the aegis of the ‘war of
terrorism’ aimed directly at the military capacity of the Iranian state. These
include essentially outlawing the Revolutionary Guard and putting the Quds
Special Forces units beyond the pale. Frankly, these are acts of war, and
should be treated as acts of war by the Iranian military. The only thing that I
can say about that is that if I were an Iranian military leader I would be
working 24/7 to get that nuclear program in place but the Americans are coming.
For those with any savvy the only thing that can keep the American wolf from
the door is such nuclear capacity. For all those who thought that Bush would
not dare to open a three front war strategy-think again. The question really is
whether we oppositionalists are capable of a three front anti-war policy. For now
though- U.S. Hands Off Iran!
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