Rather than cursing the darkness, the Balkans affair might be taken as an opportunity to ask such questions as, why not East Timor? (Or Kurdistan). My impression is that the liberation of East Timor would be a cinch. Hence I hereby offer my official support to a U.S. invasion of the island, arming the national resistance, and booting the Indonesian military ass over tea-kettle out. Next I would ask, what does the logic of the primitive anti-imperialist position in the Balkans imply for the U.S. liberation of East Timor?
> This is public relations talk, Nathan, not political analysis.
> You create a
> set of bogus binaries and choose the "lesser evils" between them. At least
> with the Democrats and Republicans, the lesser evils are part of our
> inheritance. Here you are creating them ex nihilo to justify your support
> of imperialism.
At the risk of repeating myself, unfortunately we are often confronted in the real world with binary choices, neither of which are appetizing, but one of which *may* be preferable to the other. Only dreamers transcend these annoyances.
mbs