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>From Justin Raimondo
@ www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html
><><Beginning of article><><
> September 13, 1999
>
> EAST TIMOR: CALLING ALL INTERNATIONAL BUSYBODIES!
>
> It started in Bosnia, reached a crescendo in Kosovo, and now is completed in the
> case of East Timor: the complete transformation of the War Party. Called "hawks"
> in the US, during the dark days of the Cold War, and traditionally lampooned in
> England as "Colonel Blimps," these characters created a whole antiwar movement
> simply as a reaction to their murderous arrogance and repulsive personalities.
> Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon, who became an archetype of human evil during the
> sixties, Robert McNamara, who used pseudo-scientific jargon to rationalize mass
> murder of Vietnamese civilians, and General Curtis E. LeMay, who ran with
> arch-segregationist George Wallace for vice president in 1968 and bellowed that
> he wanted to "bomb Vietnam back to the Stone Age." These guys were great
> villains, the best recruiters for the antiwar movement. Oh, for the good old
> days of General LeMay, who at least was honest about what it was he wanted and,
> indeed, what he represented: the spirit of the Stone Age incarnated in the
> modern world.
>
>
>
> THE NEW MILITARISTS
>
> Those days, alas, are gone forever. Militarism, like every other institution in
> our rotten culture, has gone politically correct. The War Party has modernized,
> updated and streamlined itself, and, most importantly, it has learned to speak a
> different language: the language of "human rights," multiculturalism, and loony
> leftism. The "hawks" and the Colonel Blimps of old are gone, replaced by such
> notables as Rep. Barney Frank and Noam Chomsky.
>
> FROM CALL BOYS TO DOUGHBOYS
>
> Rep. Frank, until recently famous for his taste in call-boys, has now become one
> of the leading lights of the War Party. Having succeeded, at least in part, in
> his crusade for gays in the military, Frank has recently seemed all too eager to
> show how this new gay-friendly army can perform in action, so to speak. "An army
> of lovers can never be defeated" or so the ancient Greeks thought, and during
> the Kosovo war the leading congressional voice of Greek love could hardly wait
> to put this old adage to the test. Now he takes to the House floor and bellows
> that "the government of Indonesia should be made to understand the terrible
> consequences it will pay if it continues the barbarous oppression of the people
> of East Timor." Ah, and what price is that? Frank is fuzzy on the details, but
> clear about the moral "right" of the U.S. to intervene, unilaterally if
> necessary:
>
> THE GREAT MILITARY LEADER SPEAKS
>
> "To those who say we must withhold, let us look at Serbia and Kosovo. The moral
> case for an international force intervening in East Timor is as great as the
> moral case was in Kosovo, and the legal case is greater. We ignored Serbia's
> claim of sovereignty over Kosovo and gave in to the moral imperative to save
> people. In Indonesia, the government in power held a referendum. Overwhelmingly,
> in the face of great intimidation, the brave people of East Timor voted for
> independence. That gives us an even stronger right to send a multinational force
> in there."
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