"Devine, James" wrote: > > 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.
In any case, just as the people of Iraq have to act (will act and are acting)for themselves, so we in the imperialist homeland must act for ourselves in response to the actions of our government. And that action has to be organized around the slogan of U.S. Out Now, No Conditions. I don't see how this constitutes even verbal snobbery: we aren't telling the Iraqis what they must do; we are doing what we must do. Carrol
