Re: Re: This makes me proud of my President

>>>>> "msf22" == msf22  <[email protected]> writes:

  msf22> happen to have a security clearence which i lack.  As far as
  msf22> any of us know this IS a real effort by the much revieled
  msf22> government of the united states to help teh people of
  msf22> Afgahnistan, something it should have done long ago.

Hmm, imagine you are an Afghani peasant woman. You are often hungry,
cannot work, maybe semiliterate at best.

Do you venture out to collect this "aid" from the sky before or during
or after the Tomahawk missiles and laser-guided bombs shriek over your
city, Kabul or Kandahar? (And since the very best data we have to
characterize the "precision" in "precision aerial bombardment" for
Tomahawks is 60%, and since we fired 50 alone on Sunday, we can assume
that as many as 20 struck non-targeted locations. Maybe houses,
hospitals, mosques, etc. Who knows?)

  msf22> i can't
  msf22> think of any imperialist war that was based on the idea of a
  msf22> humanitarian intervantion. (to improve the lives of those in
  msf22> the area.)  

Do they still teach 19th century British history at Georgetown?

         Also, by definition, an imperialist war is aimed
  msf22> at conquesring and controlling a territory, something that
  msf22> even the most hawkish do not want to happen.

Rubbish. The US as empire demands and has control over the region; all
of our policies in the region are finally tied to our control over
it. The oil reserves in Saudi Arabia are probably the most
strategically important natural resource in the world.

Modern imperialist wars are often fought by way of proxies;
'conquering and controlling a terrority' can be accomplished in a
variety of ways.
 
  msf22> i would point out
  msf22> that we have one of the strongest anti-globilization
  msf22> movements in the world right here in the united states.

Hah. Again, pure rubbish. I guess Georgetown has stopped teaching
postcolonial studies too. What a shame.

It might interest you to learn that the various groups and coalitions
and leaders who are active in the US antiglobalization movement
consistently reject this kind of nonsense.

US citizens are very, very late to the antiglobalization game and
still play it at a very amateur level, and with almost unobservably
small levels of participation, relative to pouplation, when compared
to how the global south has been resisting globalization.

Kendall Clark