Re: Re: This makes me proud of my President

> Oh, I think in the US, which is the only intellectual culture I can
> pretend to follow, the post 9-11 response has been terrible,
> essentially unchanged since Vietnam era. In fact, a case could be made
> that things are worse.

I've seen some good things around here. I have always felt very lonely
when I talked to my coleagues about Libia, Iraq, Palestine, Jugoslavia...
I got my professor of composition to read Chomsky.
I have been receiving numerous mails forwarded internationally by
people whose name is very well known in portuguese music circles,
things like signing letters for the US president (if only that helped...).
I have seen many people with little political interest starting to raise
their voice to talk about what's happening in Palestine, and the only
information these people get is from TV, nothing like Chomsky.
Simultaneously I found a lot of sites including this one, the days after
9/11 when searching for Chomsky's reactions, this is also contributing
to my optimistic feeling.
Although not that optimistic. Previous less intelectually lazy decades
like the one following May 68 had doubtful repercussions on the
reality of global economy. Actually the best example is today's
position of the most known May 68 activist of the time who is
today a deputy (how do you say?) at the european parliament.
Most of it was fake, was superficial.

>   miguel> Clearly, since those international institutions have the
>   miguel> respect of the american people, 
> 
> They do? I haven't seen any evidence of that at all.

Well it is something everyone immediatly says he/she defends...
It is also something that is not easily attackable. Attacks to those
institutions will only not fail in extremist circles.
Naturally the media does the job of clearing peoples minds
about those issues whenever the US plans a new invasion...

Miguel