lbo-talk-digest V1 #4706

[Luke Weiger]

> Oh come on. One doesn't need excuses to bash the U.S. and its
> various client states; all you have to do is open a decent
> newspaper, and you've got a score of reasons. It is preposterous > to
trust the U.S. to rescue any oppressed or abused population - it > does
what's in its imperial interest, often behind a lot of
> humanitarian rhetoric.

I don't consider it to be a priori preposterous.  This will certainly sound
quite naive (indeed, "preposterous") to many here, but your allusion to the
US doing "what's in its imperial interest" seems to be more applicable to
the Kissengeresque realism of the far-right than the liberal interventionism
espoused by Madeline Albright.


> As far as cheap shots go, there are few cheaper than to say that
> opponents of the U.S./NATO fly-by in Yugoslavia lack your
> exquisite sensitivity to the plight of the Muslims of the region.
>
> Doug

Your allusion to my "exquisite sensitivity" is itself a cheap shot (albeit
an excellent one).  Many on the left (including, I'm guessing, yourself)
didn't downplay the scope of the atrocities in the former Yugoslavia.
However, I'm troubled when Z Magazine prints articles touting Milosevic as a
good democrat.

-- Luke