[lbo-talk] Achcar's latest

[Wojtek S]

Achcar: "Of course, many would say that the intervention by
imperialist/foreign forces risks making a lot of victims. But can
anyone in their right mind believe that Western powers would have
massacred between half a million and a million human beings in 100
days?"

[WS:] Everyone's vision is 20/20 from a hindsight. Would anyone
predict that half a million would be butchered in Rwanda before it
happened?

I wholeheartedly agree with the general thrust of his argument that we
should carefully consider situation on the ground instead of rigidly
sticking to principles.  However, I have very little confidence in the
statements made by the British and American officials about the
conduct and goals of their military operation in Libya.  They simply
have no credibility, especially the British whose blatant double
standards are simply nauseating.  They are in the same league as
Joseph Goebbels.

Wojtek