[PEN-L:4552] RE: Protest against the Bombing

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Max Sawicky wrote:

>The fundamental question is whether the lives of many innocent people are
>under immediate, deadly threat at the hands of the Serbs.

Sure they are, but so are the lives of many other innocent people all over
the place - Kurds, at the hands of Turkey for example, where the casualties
have been far greater. But Turkey, being a NATO member and a loyal stooge
of the United States, gets a free ride. Africa is a goddamn "humanitarian
catastrophe," to use the phrase I keep hearing on TV, and the U.S. won't
even forgive its debts. These rescue missions are very selective, aren't
they? Clinton doesn't have a strategy, or a foreign policy really; he's
alienated the Russians seriously, and has no idea what NATO's doing in the
former Yugoslavia. I don't even think there's any grand imperial design
behind this.

Clinton's dropped more bombs than Reagan by now, right?

Doug