[lbo-talk] Re: "Save Darfur" etc (and other responses)

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

--- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Cry havoc and let loose the precisely targeted air
> to
> surface missiles of war.  This would most likely
> stop
> the brutal mass slaughter you describe - at least,
> for
> a while - and that's an unarguably good and urgently
> vital thing.
> 
> 
> But I wonder, what else will it do?  


I do not disagree with the above.  Under this
leadership, anything bad can happen.  But there were
also better times, like WW2 or Suez or even Haiti
(judging from the right wing opposition to this
intervention.)  The point that I am making is not that
the USAF should let the hell loose to stop genocide
(which is absurd), but that the US can and did play
positive roles by both military and non-military
means.  

Another point is that whatever we may say about the US
leadership (nothing good, I suppose), the US military
is much less likely to engage in rampages that we saw
in ex-Yugoslavia, Liberia, or Rwanda.  I also read a
report about infernal deeds of the Russian forces in
Chechnya against which Abu Gharib looks like horseplay
(despite of which I am still inclined to support the
Russian side of this conflict, however).  

Wojtek


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