Young Democratic Socialists position on Kosovo

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 19 09:47:27 PDT 1999


Nathan Newman wrote:


>This statement by the Youth Section of DSA is incredibly good and I would
>say it reflects my views almost in total.

Well as you might guess, Nathan, I think it's a load of crap. There were a few moments when I had some hope that the youth section of DSA was showing some signs of spunk & radicalism, but this convinces me that the organization's subordination to the Democratic Party is hopeless.

This is a beaut:


>We believe that a stronger UN should be prepared to authorize or
>themselves intervene in destructive military conflicts in the future.
>The inability of either the UN or the European Union to intervene in this
>conflict clearly demonstrates the need for stronger, more democratic and
>more political international institutions.

More democratic? The reason the UN isn't involved in this war is that at least two rather significant members, Russia and China, object, as do many smaller countries who can only view NATO's offensive strategy with alarm. Is DSA working with some special definition of "democratic" here - as in decisions DSA agrees with, or perhaps decisions the Democrats have already made?

Doug



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