[PEN-L:6211] Re: US/Nato Motives

[Ajit Sinha <sinha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The following is an expanded version of remarks I made a few days
> ago on the marxism list.
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> I think I have mentioned Sartre's "On Genocide" in other posts.
> His
> core argument was that the Vietnam War was fought not primarily
> over Viet Nam but over Latin America, which is and always has
> been the very core and foundation of U.S. Imperialism. In
> contrast
> to the French in Algeria, the labor and economic wealth of which
> was at the heart of the conflict, Vietnam had little intrinsic
> interest
> to the Empire, and thus the U.S. could follow a genocidal policy
> there with the primary purpose of teaching the people of Latin
> America a lesson.
>
> The ferocity of the U.S. response to the tiniest anti-imperialist
> developments in Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Panama, Haiti,
> etc. (not to mention the large threats such as Chile) is an index
> to how
>
> impossible it will be (has been) for any Latin American country
> to
> declare even partial or limited independence without being
> prepared
> for the most god-awful response from the U.S.
>
> Could it be that the current attack on Yugoslavia fits Sartre's
> analysis?
> That wherever U.S. bombers or infantry or CIA spooks go, it is
> really
> Latin America which is at stake?
> Carrol
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I have a feeling that the design here must be much greater than
just keeping Latin America in line, which is pretty much in line to
begin with. The risk that US/NATO has taken in this operation has
been the greatest--much greater than the Gulf War. This whole
operation must have been in making for a long time. We need a
comprehensive geo-political as well as cost-benifit analysis from
US/NATO point of view to understand this phenomenon.
Cheers, ajit sinha
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