> Though I admire Said's work in many respects (both his
>scholarship & activism), I think that his culturalist framework of
>political analysis -- Orientalism -- didn't serve him well in this case, in
>that it may have inclined him to believe (contrary to facts) that 'a poor
>nation of Muslims has been unfairly denied military aid from outside due to
>their (real or imagined) religion' or something like that.
The way I remember the stance of Landy and others who called for lifting the arms embargo was that Bosnian Muslims should be allowed to defend themselves, and shouldn't be prevented from doing so. There's a bit of slippage in calling this "aid from outside."
Doug