--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
"This sounds like it was written by some US wingnut UN-hater. It is ironic how opposites tend to meet: wingnut rightists and wingnut leftists more and more using same hyperboles."
I think the article gets it right, here. Humanitarian intervention, which is what this is about, was the favored imperialist pretext between the anti-communist era and the anti-Islamofascist one. It's evidently still useful, before a credible terrorist scenario can be worked up.
BobW
> Russell:
>
> Useful article on UN invasion of Sudan which argues
> that a "...moralised
> multilateralism lends itself to passing the buck"
> leading to a "scrambling
> of political responsibilities (which) is usually
> resolved by greater
> coercion".
>
> ***
>
> Darfur: colonised by 'peacekeepers'
>
> The new 26,000-strong UN force being sent to the
> war-torn western province
> of Sudan is likely to stir up further tensions
> rather than deliver peace.
>
>
> [WS:] This sounds like it was written by some US
> wingnut UN-hater. It is
> ironic how opposites tend to meet: wingnut rightists
> and wingnut leftists
> more and more using same hyperboles.
>
> Wojtek
>
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