UK budget, Israel

[Brad DeLong]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
>>It's historical memory of Auschwitz,  not identification with Ariel
>>Sharon, that is one of the principal  drivers of U.S. policy.
>
>The U.S. government? Really? You  actually think that the senior
>officials of the USG care about this  sort of thing, beyond PR
>concerns? The people who snuffed  three million Indochinese and a
>million Iraqis?   Doug
>
>
>A better example might be Rwanda and many other cases entailing
>natural disasters where no evident state interest prevented
>relatively easy (albeit expensive) intervention to save many lives.
>
>It's hard to believe the American system is strongly motivated
>by a desire to rescue people.
>
>mbs

Hey. All I know is what NSC staffers say. I do know that a huge 
number of them were absolutely horrified at U.S. inaction during the 
massacres in Rwanda...

Brad DeLong