A pretty useless document, Bob. Yeah, Australia is a minor imperialist
nation state. Yeah, we're a paternalistic bunch, with some racism in our
soul. Yeah, we check with Uncle Sam first. Yeah, Aboriginal Australians
have been hideously treated. And, no, the executive levels of our union
movement are not mostly genuine class fighters. And no, a UN force can not
be seen to arm one side in a conflict. So what else is new? The UN
intervention is still saving lives, isn't it? And they're not killing
anyone (this is NOTHING like Kosovo). Well, not yet, anyway.
We can but guess how this is going to pan out. And that may well have
little to do with the dodgy aspirations of the big boys involved. An
engaged left, with a sense of where things stand and whither they might be
nudged, might be just what's needed now.
Which - if the cyber-left is anything to go by - is a real pity.
Why don't you tell us what a good job the Russians are doing in razing a
plethora of Chechen villages to the ground and shredding hundreds of Chechen
civilians and Russian conscripts coz of some trouble ... over in Dagestan?
Or has it more to do with distracting people from the murderous corruption
being inflicted upon them? Russia is no longer the champion of proletarian
emancipation, y'know, Bob. And in Chechnya, murder IS being done!
Or tell us about how good things are in Ambon, where those murderous UN
troops have deigned not to spread that poisonous imperialism of theirs?
I mean, what is it with you blokes? What did the East Timorese ever do to
you? Doesn't what THEY want count for just a little?
I don't know about anybody else here, but I'm getting well tired of pro
forma blurts like this. A tempest is descending about us, and all the left
seems to be able to do - indeed, all it seems inclined to do (and not just
on this list) - is launch smug predictable boring malodorous little farts at
it. And in the name of praxis, too.
Sad.
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