building the 'european community'...

[William S. Lear]

On Thursday, April 1, 1999 at 12:39:20 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
>rc-am wrote:
>
>>perhaps we need to shift our attention, as Dennis and some others have
>>been advising, from the US and 'the Balkans' to Europe and, following
>>Balibar, to think of the ways in which this war is that which will
>>finally provide Europe (an idealised and hence racialised Europe) with
>>its millennial and violent birth.
>>
>>what better way to enact this idealised community than through a
>>shared sacrifice on the battlefield and a shared racism.
>
>But the war is being prosecuted not by an EU body but by NATO, a
>US-dominated body - a deliberate poke not only in the UN's eye, but in the
>eye of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. I thought
>the EU was meant to provide a political counter to US domination; if the
>war is part of this agenda, they're going about it in a funny way.

I'm unable to participate in much discussion now, but did anybody
catch the former UNSCOM leader on Fresh Air the other day?  He
basically pointed out that the US used UNSCOM for its own ends
(dictatorship design and implementation) rather than that which
it was supposed to be pursuing.  He said he had no problems with any
other country.

Seems like the US government can't help from fouling the waters in
which it operates.

Chomsky a while ago pointed out the dangers of a single military power
with a declining economy.

Bill