Is the Bush victory a signal for new world disorder?
The results of the US elections have come as a big disappointment to all those in the US and worldwide hoping for a defeat for the hated Bush regime. With majorities in both houses of Congress, Bush has already indicated that he will fully exploit this situation to implement a programme of further concessions to the rich at home and a continuation of his plundering imperialist agenda abroad. “I have earned new political capital and Im going to spend it on what I told the people Id spend it on.” While in no way diminishing the complications of Bushs victory, both in the US and worldwide, at the same time it is wrong to exaggerate the scale of his electoral “triumph” or what Bush is capable of doing internationally. Bush and the neo-conservatives are like the Bourbon kings of old; they forget nothing and learn nothing. No adventure or further military intervention, as Iraq demonstrates, is beyond this gang. But as Iraq also illustrates, they will conjure up colossal forces of opposition
