<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3>Yoshie writes:
<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Beyond the borders, it doesn't have the right to do anything -- to segregate
<BR>or desegregate schools in Kosovo or Macedonia or whatever. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>All hail to the sovereign nation-state. No doubt, the US had no business
<BR>interfering with the Axis powers in World War II, too. After all, the
<BR>concentration camps were "beyond the borders."
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<BR>Of course, in this psuedo-anti-imperialist argument, Yoshie manages to lose
<BR>entirely the point of the original letter and the use of the 82nd airborne,
<BR>as well as the role of the theory of sovereign state rights in supporting Jim
<BR>Crow segregation -- their argument was exactly analagous to the one she makes
<BR>for Kosov_a_, since they saw Arkansas as every bit as much a sovereign state
<BR>as she sees Greater Serbia.
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<BR>Leo Casey
<BR>United Federation of Teachers
<BR>260 Park Avenue South
<BR>New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
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<BR>Power concedes nothing without a demand.
<BR>It never has, and it never will.
<BR>If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
<BR>Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who
<BR>want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and
<BR>lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
<BR><P ALIGN=CENTER>-- Frederick Douglass --</P></FONT></HTML>