East Timor and Kosovo

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 7 09:55:18 PDT 1999


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Western intervention in East Timor would be criminal, as is 30 years
>of western aid to Indonesia. I stopped taking Angela seriously on
>foreign affairs when she rejected the principle of non-intervention
>in referencd to the NATO aggression in Yugoslavia. She is just
>as frivolous here. Her principle seems to be whatever makes
>Angela feel morally self-righteous.

Two questions: 1) why do you respond so vigorously to stuff you say you don't take seriously?, and 2) what purpose do eruptions like this serve if not feeding self-righteousness?

Doug



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