Binge and Hangover
Against The Current vol. 124
The Editors
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/110
Date Written: 2006-09-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2006
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13268
The lords of empire set out to show that the United States, not Iran or any other potential rival, will rule the "new" Middle East. Unable to attack Iran directly, however, they instead employed the willing regional branch office of the U.S. military-industrial complex, the Israeli Defense Force, to destroy Lebanon. A war that began as a triumphal imperial binge has ended, at least as of August 14 if the fragile ceasefire holds, with uncertainty and a hangover. (The ceasefire's fate, following the failed Israeli commando raid in the Bekaa Valley, is uncertain as we go to press.)
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