From: "Phil Walden" <phil-AT-pwalden.fsnet.co.uk>
Subject: BHA: RE: On the Pick & Choose Model of Resistance
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:24:22 -0000


Carroll,

I don't quite completely identify with what you wrote, although I am glad
that you gave me the opportunity of reading it.  I believe that the only
invasion of one country by another in the modern era that can be supported
is the invasion of Cambodia by Vietnam to stop Pol Pot's genocide.  Didn't
Serbia invade Bosnia?  What on earth could have been Milosevic's
rationalised justification for that?  (I haven't been following the Hague
Trial).

By the way, I did not support the American imperialist invasion of Serbia.
I have the position of Tariq Ali that one must let the people of a nation
sort out their own dictators, not cause a holocaust by doing it from
outside.

Has not the United States already invaded Britain, with all these United
States military bases blighting our fair countryside?

By the way, where are you based?  I'm assuming you're English.

In struggle,
Phil

Carrol Cox wrote:

I believe that quite a few on this list supported U.S. intervention in
Yugoslavia. I don't remember what the response was on Afghanistan.

I merely want to point out that one cannot pick and choose the items on
which one will support imperialism. Those who gave their voice to the
overthrow of Milosevic were dividing progressives in advance, and hence
contributing to the current criminal assault on the Iraqi people.

A Yes for Humanitarian Bombing is a Yes for Genocide.

Carrol



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