roachboy

right. nothing to see here, folks. ace has determined that the Problem in iraq has nothing to do with incompetence or corruption or american colonial domination.

rather is "the economy stupid" which is exactly correct----it is stupid to imagine that the economy is separable from the political institutions that enable it, that channel it and limit it and so on, so it is in fact only the stupid who would think that "the economy stupid" taken in isolation is in fact an explanation for much of anything.

but it makes some sense that american conservatives would try to enforce such a split given the debacle for they've presided over in these pathetic neo-liberal times, the largest redistribution of wealth toward the top 1 percent in terms of wealth ever seen, the consolidation of the entertainment-security complex, the continuation against all reason of the national-security state, a massive expansion of prisons as an instrument of class warfare, the institution of an intellectual-integrity optional approach not only to politics but information...lots to answer for....so it's not a real shock that its the economy stupid would emanate from those waters.

i don't think anyone else in the world is fooled by this nonsense. certainly not the people protesting in iraq. certainly not those in libya or egypt or tunisia. or algeria or morocco or bahrain or oman or yemen. nor in most of the united states. just over there in the shrinking island of the american right.

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