Speaking as a registered Democrat and one who has done his little bit over the years, I am yet to encounter anyone who thinks this Yugoslavian Affair is a good idea. About the strongest thing I've heard said on Clinton and Gores behalf is a couple of people have told me,"well, I guess we have to...I dunno". Of course this is probably why Gore has been in Ohio twice in the last week.
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Tom L.
Doug Henwood wrote:
> 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