Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 14:35:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jeffrey Booth <booth2-AT-husc.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: Yugoslavia -Reply


	
	Imperialist powers create the conditions for and perpetuate
genocide.  (Including Yugoslavia).  Your "choice" is no real choice at
all. 

			-- Jeff Booth



> On Tue, 1 Aug 1995 LeoCasey-AT-aol.com wrote:
> 
> > when the choice is genocide or intervention by imperial powers, I don't have
> > any problems figuring out which I think is the lesser of the two evils.
> 
> Louis Proyect:
> Please elaborate on your use of the word "genocide". Is genocide also 
> taking place in Liberia today? Was it taking place in the Nigerian civil 
> war in the 1970's. Was the war the Zionists waged against Palestinians 
> any less "genocidal" than the Serb war against Muslim. Genocide means 
> extermination and unfortutely this term is being bandied about today with 
> no regard for history. If the choice is not between "genocide" and 
> imperial intervention, but rather one between a brutal civil war and 
> imperial intervention, then some of us might be persuaded to stop doing 
> cheap imitations of Anthony Lewis.
> 
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