Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 08:50:57 +1000 (GMT+1000)
From: s021656-AT-student.uq.edu.au (Samuel Bogitini)
Subject: cold shudder


Dear friends,

Appearing in a discussion list that calls itself 'postcolonial', Kani 
Xulam's perspective on the US-Iraq debacle, and Bogitini's reproduction 
of the text, displays a naive ignorance of the wider and more pressing 
issue of US hegemony and domination that send a chill down my spine.

Saddam is no angel but, to put it in perspective, the Kurds have also 
been persecuted by the US-backed Turks (who are at this very moment 
conducting an offensive on the Kurds in Iraqi territory), the Iranians 
and by the so-called 'coalition against Iraq'. The solution to the 
Kurdish problem lies not in the bombing of babies in Iraq but in the 
promotion of a genuine international initiative. 

While we all must emphatise with the plight of the Kurds it must not 
distratct us from the central issue of US hegemony and the promotion of 
a particular form of lifestyle that is both environmentally destructive 
and socially unjust.   

Bombs for oil, as Madeline Albright or Clinton would have it, is 
definitely not the kind of 'postcolonial' world that I would like my 
child to grow up in. 

We should be cautious about Mr. Xulam's piece as he represents an 
organisation (coincidentally based in the US) with an explicit agenda. 
Mr. Bogitini, however, is a naive student eager to find a 'new' 
perspective.......which is regrettable. 

Mr Bogitini........ wake up!!!!!!

SHAH 

It seems to me that I have been defined by somebody else as a "naive
student". A contradiction of your own argument.  Let's be practicle mate.
Where does your argument will lead you to? Are you going to solve this
problem but one thing for sure, this issue will only be solved by who
originated it.  We may all be guessing at this stage. Who knows the future?
Not men.... for sure.

Samu     
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Samuela Bogitini                     ph (07)33656507
Graduate School of Education         fax(07)33657199
University of Queensland
Brisbane QLD 4072



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