Vs: Re: any result, lacanians - marxistphilosophy

[pickled cucumber]

Dear Mr. Dumain, it is quite possible that I am indeed an idiot,
but I cannot say that I found your post enlightening.  When you liken
the war in Iraq, supposedly for my edification, to Nazi Germany's
campaign for world domination, what are you saying beyond the fact that
the purpose of the war in Iraq is domination?  Isn't that, almost
tautologically, the purpose of most wars?  Aren't most wars started for
the purpose of gaining a political, or economic, or military, or
territorial advantage?  Are there many wars that are started for the
purpose of "liberating" the country that is being attacked?   And is it
not the case that capitalism needs periodic wars, and that the existence
of whole geopolitical regions that are resistant to the flow of
capitalism - because of an adherence to atavistic modes of social
and cultural organization - constitutes an obstacle to both capitalism
and the "international state of peace" that capitalism has invented?
So I am not sure why you feel that the US invasion of Iraq should
provoke in each and every one of us such great pangs of conscience
and such chest-beating.  Yes, capitalism wants to dominate, Christianity
wants to dominate, and they have, so far, been more successful at it
than the other systems that, given a chance, would gladly dominate too.
As for myself, I confess that of all the rather pitiful existing
solutions that people have managed to devise to the problem of communal
life, I find the US one by far the preferable, and therefore, if forced
to choose, I would favor its dominance, rather the dominance of
something else.

It would be much more interesting, in my opinion, if you showed how
this war is wrong because it in fact does NOT further long-term
American interests.  Although one cannot deny that it is not a war for
Iraqi liberation, or that it pays little attention to preserving Iraq's
national treasures, or that blood is being spilled, none of these
observations amount to what I would call a mind-opening political
analysis. Neither is it mind-opening to remark that the US, as a state,
wants to further its own interests.  These arguments remind me somehow
of an old film by Harun Farocki in which a man convinces a prostitute,
over her great misgivings, to marry him, and then throws tantrums and
creates a living hell because his wife whores.


PC




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