Herman - Coalitions Of The Willing, Coerced, And Bribed

[Peter K.]

Pavlick quoting Herman (yet again)
>>In reality, the U.S.-organized coalitions to attack Iraq,
>>Yugoslavia, and now Afghanistan, have been tightly controlled
by the
>>United States, with the help of its lap-dog British ally; the
two,
>>but mainly the United States, have done all the dirty work in
Iraq,
>>and they ran the bombing show in the Yugoslav war despite a
supposed
>>19-member coalition (NATO) at work there; and the same is true
in
>>the Afghan war.

It's interesting that Britain openly asked the US to double its
foreign aid to
$50 billion to help ameliorate the conditions which encourgage
terrorism.
Of course, Herman doesn't note this fact. It might disturb his
narrow worldview.


>>It is sad to see Nelson Mandela also supporting the U.S. "war
>>against terrorism" ("Anwar Sadat Lecture for Peace [sic],"
>>University of Maryland, Nov. 15, 2001), which I suspect he is
doing
>>partly in the Mitterand-D'Alema mold--to be an accepted member
of
>>the respectable state cohort.

Maybe Mandela sees something Herman doesn't.


>>It is sad also that Mandela can't reflect on the fact that the
>>United States held the African National Congress to be a
terrorist
>>organization in the 1980s, and that the CIA helped South Africa
>>capture and imprison its terrorist commander, Nelson Mandela.
What
>>would he think of a Third World country that had gotten on THAT
>>antiterrorist bandwagon?

It's sad that Herman thinks we're still in the 1980s, when in
fact it's the 21st
century. Maybe Mandela is aware of these issues. For one thing,
the ANC
never massacred 3,000 civilians and terrorized millions more in
one sitting.
It seem the much more experienced Mandela can spot an enemy
whilst the condescending Herman can't.

Peter