Grant Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > And what is "imperialism", if not the presumption that one knows better than people on the ground?<
surely there is a qualitative difference between _real_ imperialist policy (i.e., the presumption that one knows better than the people on the ground and thus imposes one's view with bayonets, bombs, and blockades) and verbal snobbery (the presumption that one knows better than people on the ground, which is stated in words). Equating these two types of "imperialism" is nothing but obfuscation, either an effort to cover up the real imperialist policy or to use fallacious reasoning to win an argument or both. ------------------------ Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
