[lbo-talk] Here comes the Big One?

[ravi]

On 10 Aug, 2007, at 14:20 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> Ravi:
>
> We are not talking about Tutsis facing genocide here.
> And hell, if in that case we can insist, on principle,
> against intervention, so what if they all die, we
> don't need to go sensitive here!
> .................
>
> I can't make heads or tails of this giddy sentence

It's two sentences! ;-)


> Ravi, do you know why serious people oppose
> "humanitarian intervention"?  It's not because the US
> is, in some vague way, *bad* and therefore everything
> it does must be bad.

And hence my footnote.

There are two ways to look at anything we say: (a) we are so  
insignificant a faction that it doesn't matter what we say, in which  
case it doesn't, so what the heck, recommend whatever, or (b) we say  
these things because they have to be said, in which case we might as  
well say the whole thing: US sponsored UN intervention in Darfur,  
etc. Which is all another whole thread, of course!

	--ravi