Fwd: MADRE's Talking Points on Yugoslav Crisis

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Apr 3 09:58:50 PST 1999


Chris Burford wrote:


>I am very glad NATO has abandoned its appeasement role, (which was also
>imperialist in character - even more so than its war role) but one of the
>criticisms to be made of NATO is its condescending saviour approach. It
>should have had a bottom up approach, and it should have insisted in
>bargaining on fostering not international monitors but the structures of
>civil society, of the sort that MADRE has worked with.

Chris, your capacity for self-deception is really a marvel. NATO is a military organization dominated by the U.S. whose role has historically been to destroy the USSR and to bind Western Europe to the U.S. in a subordinate role. It is an imperalist organization, to use some unfashionable language. MADRE is a feminist human rights organization, and an anti-imperalist one at that. Why should an imperialist organization do anti-imperialist work?

Doug



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