Re: [Marxism] Re: Australian and NZ intervention in East Timor

[Lajany Otum <lajany_otum@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ben Courtice  wrote:

 > It concerns me, though, that all the East Timorese political
 >organisations, including the left, have welcomed if not invited
 >the Australian/NZ (and others, e.g. Portuguese).

 If this is indeed the case (though how do we verify it in light of
 the DSP's claim that it is nearly impossible to accurately assess
 the situation in Timor?), then all it would show is that the
 the position of the East Timorese political class is as wrongly
 craven toward Australian chauvinism on this issue as is the DSP.
 Two wrongs do not make a right. Nor do two false illusions add
 up to reality.

 >While I suspect the Australian government has designs on
 >running East Timorese affairs in the same way they run
 >the Solomon Islands public service, it's not for it's not for
 >me to tell the East Timorese national movement what to do.

 Here we agree. Telling the Timorese what to do is not your
 job under the present circumstances. It is John Howard and
 the Australian Military's job. After, he not you, has the
 claim to being the regional sheriff.
 < http://www.atimes.com/oceania/AI28Ah01.html>

 I would have thought your job was to mobilise the Australian
 populace against any regional action by a state that so
 openly declares its imperialist intentions. Then again, I
could be wrong in assuming this.

 Lajany Otum


                
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