Anti-Imperialism 101 Re: Hitchens quits Nation

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>
>>  At 5:00 PM -0400 9/27/02, Nathan Newman wrote:
>>  >If the explicit goal of US intervention was to run Iraq from abroad
>>  >dictatorially, that might be an argument, but since the explicit goal is
>to
>>  >restore power to the Iraqi people through democratic institutions, the
>nice
>>  >symmetry fails.  You can argue that this will not happen or is not really
>>  >the goal, but you are back to arguing subtext, not stated intention.
>>
>>Since when is the US military a "democratic
>>  institution" in Iraq?
>
>If (not when, since this is hypothetical) the US military is then replaced
>by democratic elections, something Hussein's military will not be, then the
>military would be a democratic institution.
>
>Which (with musical chorus) is why the US military national guard was a
>democratic institution down South.
>
>-- Nathan Newman

Iraq has never been part of the United States, unlike the US South. 
See, tortuous support for US imperialism not only corrupts political 
discourse here but also history and geography.
-- 
Yoshie

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