Re: AUT: WSW article on East Timor/Indonesia

[Gerald Levy <glevy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Bartlett wrote:

> But the Timorese are entitled to defend themselves and the least we can do
> is supply them with the means necessary to do that. We should do what we
> can to divert the economic and military aid currently going to the
> Indonesian state, to the Timorese, perhaps a combination of economic
> sanctions and the prospect of a well armed and well supplied resistance
> might do the trick.
> Doing nothing is evil.

Who is the "we" above? Are you suggesting that the US government help
supply arms and supplies or *we* do that? If "doing nothing is evil" and
the US government doesn't do this, aren't you suggesting that *we* must?


> All the talk about opposing capitalist interests is just fantasy though.
> Indonesia itself is semi-feudal, Timor being essentially a feifdom
> controlled by elements of the military,

I think you are seriously  underestimating the extent to which Indonesia
is part of the world capitalist economy and the extent to which
capitalist relations have become the norm.

Jerry



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