Date sent: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:47:59 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Pen-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PEN-L:4552] RE: Protest against the Bombing Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Max Sawicky wrote: > > >The fundamental question is whether the lives of many innocent people are > >under immediate, deadly threat at the hands of the Serbs. > > Sure they are, but so are the lives of many other innocent people all over > the place - Kurds, at the hands of Turkey for example, where the casualties > have been far greater. But Turkey, being a NATO member and a loyal stooge > of the United States, gets a free ride. Africa is a goddamn "humanitarian > catastrophe," to use the phrase I keep hearing on TV, and the U.S. won't > even forgive its debts. These rescue missions are very selective, aren't > they? Clinton doesn't have a strategy, or a foreign policy really; he's > alienated the Russians seriously, and has no idea what NATO's doing in the > former Yugoslavia. I don't even think there's any grand imperial design > behind this. > > Clinton's dropped more bombs than Reagan by now, right? > > Doug > Doug, Do you have any count of how many innocent people have died that can be accredited to the current US administration? 1 million in Iraq, x thousands in Mexico and Latin America, up to now 50,000 to 100,000 in the Balkans with the number escalating daly,...? Let's have a contest. The person who can document the most deaths to US foreign policy in the last 8 years gets a ....? An apology for honesty? Hey, thats a contest. What should they win? Paul Phillips, Economics, University of Manitoba
[PEN-L:4555] Re: RE: Protest against the Bombing
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