The Case of Class Analysis, Not Flag Waving Analysis

The Persian Gulf is costing us two and a half dollars for every dollar's worth of oil that's coming out of the Persian Gulf. Even if it's not coming to the US, only 4% of that comes to the US. So there's the case of policy not being shared equally. There's a case where you have to have a class analysis rather than a flag-waving analysis. This is equal true of ancient empires as well as modern empires.