the upcoming referendum in East Timor - was The weakness of the anti-war movement

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 21 07:42:15 PDT 1999


C. G. Estabrook wrote:


> Interesting, but not to the point. The question was about the
>justification for Chomsky's comment that "Today there's strong opposition
>to US support for Indonesian slaughter in East Timor [in spite of the fact
>that] there are no American body bags" -- and that's clearly true.

If their numbers are few and effects are immeasurable on the ground, how can this opposition movement be "strong"?

Doug



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