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>Alan Jacobson wrote:
> >I supported NATO
> > intervention in Bosnia not only because the Serbs were murderous thugs
>and,
> > at least initially, Bosnia was a multiethnic state attempting to assert
> > self-determination but also that US imperial power was not materially
> > strengthened by doing so.
>
>You and Solidarity were so profoundly wrong.
Soli did NOT Support the Nato intervention in Bosnia. We have NEVER, as group, supported any US intervention. Hell, I've caught flack in internal discussion for saying that the US involvement in WWII was a positive thing on balance. Individual members may have different views. In another context, my own marklet socialism is not widely shared in Soli--Frank Thompson agrees with me, but I don't think anyone else in the group does.
What has strengthened the
>freedom of operation of u.s. imperiaolism most in the last 20 years is
>precisely those interventions which got by with least left opposition
>and received most support from liberals and naive leftists. Haiti did
>even more damage. The refusal to interfere in Rwanda also strengthened
>imperialism, since it provided an artificial example of when
>intervention "would have" been desirable.
??This last (about Rwanda) is very strange. You lose me here. Btw, what do you think would have been the right position to take about Rwanda, apart from calling on the Tutsis to resist?
jks
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