Re: Malvinas Re: Question for Phil

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lenin would have clipped all extraneous text before replying to a message, so 
should you.
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:23:19 -0400, Xxxx Xxxxxx wrote:
>Well, Nestor has repeated this statement several
>times and has not retracted it so I don't buy
>the "heat of the moment" excuse.

Xxxx, you have been going on about this for what seems like months
now. I just went through back messages and this appears to be the
only thing that Nestor has said about dispensing justice to traitors
during wartime:

>>The war could have been won, only that in order to do so it had to
be transformed into a revolutionary war. The fear of that
transformation was expressed by Alexander Haigh himself when he
turned pale at the mass gathering in Plaza de Mayo insulting the
United States in his very face, and commented: "We must stop this.
This is Iran". Galtieri, who was at his side, was trying to show that
we Argentineans were courteous and cavalier even with our adversaries
(he did not say enemies, not even by mistake). When these were
mentioned, the mass at the square began to boom "Hijos de puta, hijos
de puta!".

Pushing the war effort ahead would have meant to shoot down for
treason people such as Roberto Alemann, who as Minister of Economy
kept paying the interests for the foreign debt to the very same
countries that had expressed their full support to England. It would
have meant to strike an immediate offensive and defensive agreement
between Argentina, Cuba and Venezuela, which would put in black on
white things that were already taking place. And so on.

So that in Argentina, supporting the move that had turned the weapons
of our Armed Forces from our necks to the chest of the imperialists
was what we had to do.<<

So, when Nestor advocated shooting traitors, he was referring to the
Minister of Economy and for reasons that have very little to do with
1914, Eugene V. Debs, etc. They seem more similar to Somoza's
behavior during the earthquake relief effort. Or would you be so
foolish and so dogmatic as to argue otherwise?


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Louis Proyect, lnp3@xxxxxxxxx on 10/22/2001

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