On 4/20/11 11:21 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The U.S. and EU have never once given support to an actual democratic > movement in any of the world's weaker nations. The question posed idn > teh subject line is redundant since it is a given that a movement > supported in any way by the EU or US is not a democratic movement. The > very existence of a debate among leftists on this topic is immenselly > sdaddening.
The debate has never been about intervention. It has been about the character of the Qaddafi government. By analogy, I had debates with Michael Karadjis of the Australian DSP over Milosevic, whether he was trying to preserve Titoism in some fashion or not, etc. But neither Karadjis or I supported NATO's war. The problem we are facing in the current debate is that some elements of the pro-Qaddafi left are reluctant to come out and say that he is "one of us" so their emphasis is more on how rotten his enemies are. I regard this approach as cheap demagogy. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
