From: "Clifford Duffy" <cwduff-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Traffic (the film) -- again - & again
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:28:53 -0400


--- I completly agree with the position you state below. It is necessarily 
false to think that there is one cause and one cause only to the conditions 
of any situation of oppression. The 20th century gave us ample evidence of 
that. The wrong doing of world empires -- the USA -- does not cancel out the 
evil wrong doing in the countries that are being exploited. This is common 
sense. For instance agreeing that the
"Gulf War" was set up to protect American oil interests does not in any way 
deny or cancel out Saddam Hussein's responsibility for the crimes he has 
perpetrated against his own nation and people. His crimes are wellk 
documented and well known. I think part of the problem arises because know 
that the USA is constantly manipulating the various smaller despots for its 
own ends. And so on. But from an ethical view point the big guy being Bad 
does make the Little guy less accountable, but accountable in different 
ways. If all the blame were to be put on One side then we would all lose our 
freedom,our freedom to rebel, to change, to revolt and to choose our 
freedom. And if that is the case, then we might as well stop talking, but 
fortunately it is notthe case.
Thank you for raising your head and speaking so cogently to these points.
CD
>From: "Linda L. Grabner-Coronel" <lgrabner-AT-mediaone.net>
>Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>
>However, my main point in supporting Margaret was that the economic motives
>of forces internal to third world countries also cannot be denied - rather
>than trying to place the blame on only one power or another, perhaps it
>would be more realistic to recognize that many factors and many parties are
>involved, and not all of them are external to the countries being 
>oppressed.
>
>Linda
>
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