Re: [A-List] Modesty Blaise

[Andre Gunder Frank <franka@xxxxxxx>]

More acurately, he is out to - his ambition is and has loong since been
- to buiuld a PERSONAL empire. now if that involves a US one, so uch the
better, because that would extend his personal one.

The Balkans was not his first playing field. As I recall [correctly?] he
was already at the same in Nicaragua and Iraq.
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001,
Henry C.K. Liu wrote:

> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 13:12:11 -0500
> From: Henry C.K. Liu <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: a-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: a-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [A-List] Modesty Blaise
>
> Yes, but those are honest hawks.  Holbrooke is a hawk in dove's clothing.
> Hawks are easier to deal with.  I even have respect for them as honest enemies.
> Holbrooke aims to be an American Disreali who revived the Tory Party, after
> splitting with Robert Peel whose policy of free trade was attacked as a
> betrayal of Tory ideals in the Corn Law controversy, with a twofold policy of
> democracy and imperialism.  Holbrooke is out to build the American empire.
>
> Henry C.K. Liu
>
> Mark Jones wrote:
>
> > At 07/12/2001 17:14, Henry wrote:
> > >Holbrooke is the most dangerous man in US foreign policy.
> >
> > But there is a good shortlist of other candidates: Perle, Rumsfeld, Rice...
> >
> > Mark
>
>
>




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