Re: In Defense of Elian's Rescue: a response to Barry Schier

[Ambrose Andrews <ambrosea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lots of variously inapplicable examples

troops to mississippi
vietnam into cambodia/kampuchea
cuba into angola

demand for a second front in WW2
might be a better one.

  -AA.



Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> This attempt to confuse the issue was brought up frequently during
> the debate on East Timor -- and those opposing the Australian invasion
> of East Timor consistently attacked the obscurantist confusion between
> (1) insisting that the state enforce its own laws in its own territory and
> (2) going over to the ruling class by tailing that class's foreign 
> adventurism.
> The specific contrast (not comparison) to the Australian invasion of
> East Timor was the use of u.s. troops to enforce school integration in
> the south.
>
> Carrol