In a message dated 2/16/00 2:42:07 PM, brettk at unica-usa.com writes:
<<The most striking thing about this is US influence - when the US wanted the atrocities to stop, it stopped. Intervention was never required - a simple phone call from Clinton to Wiranto would have sufficed.>>
This bugs me, much like Alan Nairn's assertion that Clinton just had to make a phone call. I think the generalization that I could draw from this is that everything would be fine if the ruling class just stopped acting in its own interest.
mcapri