Anti-Imperialism 101 Re: Hitchens quits Nation

[Shane Mage]

Nathan Newman wrote:
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>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.

The "South" was in open armed rebellion and fired the first shots.
No-one, least of all  the Bushes, Senior and Junior, ever proposed
that the UN send troops into Iraq (one of my many major criticisms
of Gorbachev is that he signed a blank check to Bush Senior instead of
insisting that the UN deal with the Kuwait crisis in terms of the
procedures set forth under Article 7 of the UN charter).


>But then what do the vagaries of nationalist history have to do with the
>justice of fighting for democracy?
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>--
Bush Junior is, if anything, even less likely than the butcher Sadam
Hussein to ever be  "fighting for democracy."

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all 
things."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64