[PEN-L:6786] Re: People's Daily Commentary

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

Yoshie,
     You are happy that people are deluded?
I am sorry for you.
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, May 13, 1999 4:34 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:6784] People's Daily Commentary


>Barkley Rosser:
>>      Ooooooh.  Well, if His Excellency, President
>>Jiang Zemin declares  that "mistaken bombing"
>>or "accident" is "prevarication" and "can never be
>>accepted" as explanations, that certainly makes
>>it so.  I am very impressed.
>>      BTW, let us be very clear that "explanation" is
>>most definitely not the same think as "justification."
>>There is no justification for what has happened.
>
>1. I'm happy that most ordinary Chinese people (both those in China and
>here in America) seem to think that the bombing was purposeful. Their
>understanding of this bombing has brought back the language of
>anti-imperialism among the masses and appears to fire up people enough to
>mount large + militant protests.
>
>2. While explanation is not the same as justification on this list, it is
>obvious that when USA/NATO spokesmen offer an 'explanation,' they intend it
>to be taken as justification.
>
>Yoshie
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