Re: Thatcher and nationalism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Ken Hanley wrote:

>Well this might be nice if nations intervened in other countries when bad
>things are done and were able to stop the bad things happenings.

When socialist nations did intervene, imperialist nations did not 
appreciate such interventions at all.  Many intellectuals -- 
including many leftists -- in the West condemned the Soviet 
intervention in Afghanistan, though the Soviets were backing the side 
of modernizers -- whatever faults you may find in them -- against the 
forces of feudal reaction supported by the CIA.  It is not just 
military interventions by socialist nations that courted the wrath of 
imperialists.  The presence of Cuban engineers & construction workers 
in Grenada was used as an excuse for the U.S. invasion of Grenada. 
The list is endless.

Yoshie