<strong>Written By:</strong> 4Canada
<strong>Date:</strong> 2007-09-08 13:21:08
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Ms. Klein traces the application of such “shock treatment” to Chile in the 1970s, Russia in the 1990s and elsewhere. She argues that “disaster capitalism” has exploited Sept. 11, Hurricane Katrina and Iraq. In this section, she considers the aftermath of George W. Bush's “anti-Marshall Plan”: Rather than help Iraqis rebuild their own economy, as the U.S. did in Germany in Japan in the 1940s, she says, they would permit Western corporations to remake Iraq in their own image. Things did not go as planned. But were some of those goals achieved?

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This excerpt brings out more questions than it answers. We have known that private contractors have been playing a central role in Iraq from the beginning. As far as I can see they have not been particularly successful in using Iraq's oil to pay for them. It seems to me that the really big losers here are the American people whose government is using deficit financing to transfer income and wealth from taxpayers to these private corporations.

The system might delight an ideologue like Strauss, who seems to have advocated the social control through mass poverty and insecurity created by perpetual war but how can anyone with a logical and practical brain believe that this kind of a system can be sustained indefinately?

   

".. how can anyone with a logical and practical brain believe that this kind of a system can be sustained indefinately?"

No one thinks that this scam is sustainable, but the murderous criminals at the top of this particular pyramid scheme are as happy as can be.