[DEBATE] : Re: Aijaz Ahmad / "Empire comes to Lebanon

[Doug Henwood]

On Aug 9, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Sean Jacobs wrote:

>   Empire comes to Lebanon
>
> AIJAZ AHMAD
>
>   The U.S.-Israel axis goes all out to remove the last impediments to
> building a "New Middle East".

I'm a little confused by this piece - is Ahmad arguing that things  
are going according to plan? Given the disaster of Iraq, and the  
evolving disaster of Lebanon, it's hard to see success, but maybe I'm  
looking in the wrong place.

Doug