Fwd: MADRE's Talking Points on Yugoslav Crisis

[Chris Burford]

At 12:58 03/04/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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

That's exactly the point I am making! 

The imperialists *cannot* lead a genuinely just and democratic solution to
such problems. 

Clearly you have no concept of a united front against fascism.

Chris Burford