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It is a liberalish bit of mainstream reporting but it clearly outlines an important set of US interests in the Libya intervention - that this is intended to legitimize imperial power, establish a precedent, 'rehabilitate humanitarian intervention', and 'promote democracy'. As such it is worth more than the reams conspiracism that passes for analysis on much of the left. Any relation between such thought and reality is often pure coincidence or worse. -dave On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Eli Stephens <elishasteph...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I hope I don't need to warn comrades about the dangers of believing "spin" > articles like this. Any claims about who was pushing for war, who wasn't, > what their alleged reasons are, is all for public consumption. Any relation > between such articles and reality is strictly tangential if not orthogonal. > > Meanwhile, in REAL news ( > http://lefti.blogspot.com/2011/03/protecting-civilians.html ), the U.S. is > killing or at least shooting at civilians (including "rebels") in Libya, and > Israel continues killing civilians in Gaza. > > > > Eli Stephens > Left I on the News > http://lefti.blogspot.com > > > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/dave.xx%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
