Re: Re: Thatcher and nationalism

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie writes:
> When socialist nations did intervene, imperialist nations did not
> appreciate such interventions at all.  Many intellectuals -- including
> many leftists -- in the West condemned the Soviet intervention in
> Afghanistan, though the Soviets were backing the side of modernizers --
> whatever faults you may find in them -- against the forces of feudal
> reaction supported by the CIA.  It is not just military interventions by
> socialist nations that courted the wrath of imperialists.  The presence of
> Cuban engineers & construction workers in Grenada was used as an excuse
> for the U.S. invasion of Grenada. The list is endless.

You don't understand: when the bad guys (Cuba, Iraq, etc.) do things, it's
bad, but when the good guys (us) do things, it's good. It may seem that we
are using the same methods, but our cause is just -- since we're fighting
for freedom -- and you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs...

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine