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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Aggression not cost effective?
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Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 13:23:55 EDT
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> On the flip side, not all gains are pecuniary.
> Therefore, in our time, serious wars are likely to be started
> or provoked only by governments that are not commercially motivated.
> "Bourgeois democracies" are thus doubly exempted.
> 
> 		Jan Wasilewsky

I take it that counter-insurgency operations and war against Nicaragua
are ideologically rather than commercially motivated?  What is the primary
source of political and military power in the US today?

Or, perhaps you do not consider war against the peoples of the Dominican
Republic, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua as ``serious wars.''

Jeff Myers