> Scaife 'n' Snitch (and the Hitch)

[Rakesh Narpat Bhandari]

Yoshie,
I think what Nader says here about the causes of international 
problems and proposes as solutions is either impossible to make out 
or superficial and onesided or flat out wrong. These are not 
considered opinions. And there is surely no clear answer as to what 
he thinks the US or the UN role in Rwanda should have been. he 
intimates that the US should not intervene itself, that we need 
bigger international peace keeping forces--so is he proposing a 
bigger contribution to the UN? how would the US and the world 
community improve its intelligence and information dissemination so 
that it would be attentive to threatening developments before they 
reached their terrible end? would he allow US troops to participate 
in such forces?  should such a force only been made up of troops from 
neighboring countries? what if the necessary cohesion was not 
forthcoming? As I said, there is nothing to go on here. It seems that 
Nader just didn't think about this very much.


>   One expects a lot less ideological cohesion today than in the past 
>(though it's not that there was unity in the past either).

OK.


>
>>I don't look at things the way someone like he does. Moreover, I 
>>think elite support for a free trade is largely a sham--look at the 
>>free trade act with Africa. Did the US open up its markets?
>
>On one hand, American leftists should oppose American protectionism; 
>on the other hand, free trade agreements are mixed bags, which 
>probably have more negative consequences than positive ones for poor 
>nations in the short term.

Especially true of bilateral ones.

OK, like John G, I've got work to do, so I am unsubbing.

Rakesh