Eh, that was a long time ago when they had lingering colonialist delusions. (I leave the Brits, who are still still suffering from these, out of the picture.) I think Europcop would go in for minimal intervention of a mostly peacekeeping sort -- hard to getthe support of the populations for anything else. ALso the Europeans would be unwilling to pony up for huge military establishments. All this is idle, as I said, they are happy to let us do their dirty work. I agree with Carrol that US Out Of Everywhere is a good slogan. I am not so optimistic about the results of civil wars in the modern era. By which I include the last 200 years. Who won the US civil war? And did things turn out so well?
--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 20, 2006, at 3:26 PM, andie nachgeborenen
> wrote:
> >
> > > Needless to say it would be better for the world
> > > to have the Eurocops do it
> >
> > Not for long. Throw them into the role of global
> enforcers and
> > they'll start behaving like Uncle Sam in an
> instant. There's
> > certainly nothing in the history of Europe to make
> you believe
> > otherwise.
>
> I was going to say that.
>
> But they have already been as bad as the u.s. when
> called upon. Let's
> not forget the British in Malaya and France in
> Algeria and Belgium in
> the Congo and Germany in Poland. Capitalists are
> capitalists, and
> capitalist states are capitalist states when put to
> it. And imperial
> states are criminal states.
>
> Actually, anarchy within states not subject to
> foreign "assistance"
> works itself out, more or less tyranically, more or
> less democratically,
> but stable. It is the robocop who causes the chaos
> of the sort that only
> leads to more chaos. That was my formula for Iraq: a
> more or less
> controlled civil war* leading to some sort of
> stability.
>
> &On the analogy of england in the 17th c., the u.s.
> in the 19th, & the
> Soviet Union in its early days. Civil wars free from
> foreign influence
> usually turn out fairly decently, whichever side
> wins.
>
> Carrol
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