On 9/16/06, Daniel Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is an important point upon which I'd like to have some sort of argument
outside of the normal world of posturing media. Louis is correct to
(implicitly) point out that a lot of the "Save Darfur" crowd are acting in
incredible bad faith (in particular, the original Colin Powell "genocide"
speech was transparently an attempt to curry favour with GW Bush's mates in
the fundamentalist Christian movement, who are absurdly in favour of
decapitation of the Khartoum regime because of their experiences in the
south-Sudan war.
On the other hand, there is a very serious humanitarian crisis in Darfur and
a lot of the problem is the al-Bashir regime, who are very nasty people
(third world strongmen of the worst kind, with a very bad tracj record.
What does one do?
Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that there is a solution
to it, let alone that there is a solution in one's hand right now.
But, nonetheless, leftists should articulate a foreign policy that is
not a response to the MSM, political exiles, ethnic and religious
lobbies, human rights organizations, and so on that work with (and
sometimes are members of) the power elite of the multinational empire,
but one that is based on our own strategic thinking about what kind of
world we want and how we go about creating it.
--
Yoshie
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