Anti-Imperialism 101 Re: Hitchens quits Nation

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>>  >Which (with musical chorus) is why the US military national guard was a
>>  >democratic institution down South.
>>
>>  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.
>
>As far as the South was concerned, the North had as much right to send in
>troops as the UN has to send troops into Iraq.
>
>But then what do the vagaries of nationalist history have to do with the
>justice of fighting for democracy?
>
>-- Nathan Newman

American workers have no hope of fighting for democracy here, as long 
as they think the US military is fighting to "bring democracy" to 
peoples of the world.
-- 
Yoshie

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