82nd Airborne

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie writes:
>
>>Beyond the borders, it doesn't have the right to do anything -- to segregate
>>or desegregate schools in Kosovo or Macedonia or whatever.
>
>All hail to the sovereign nation-state. No doubt, the US had no business
>interfering with the Axis powers in World War II, too. After all, the
>concentration camps were "beyond the borders."
>
>Of course, in this psuedo-anti-imperialist argument, Yoshie manages to lose
>entirely the point of the original letter and the use of the 82nd airborne,
>as well as the role of the theory of sovereign state rights in supporting Jim
>Crow segregation -- their argument was exactly analagous to the one she makes
>for Kosov_a_, since they saw Arkansas as every bit as much a sovereign state
>as she sees Greater Serbia.  
>
>Leo Casey

Neither Arkansas nor Serbia are sovereign states yet.

The USA & Yugoslavia are.

Yoshie