At 09:34 AM 3/18/01 -1000, you wrote:
> bon moun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Patrick Bond):
>Even the mass
>non-violent strategies of Ghandi and King, et al, were acted out against a
>background of the Soviet Union's armed force. Never doubt, that in the
>absence of that mighty alternative, Ghandi and King and their followers
>would have been slaughtered en masse.
>
>---Also, if it weren't for the SU's armed force, Allende would have been
>overthrown in 1973 and Pinochet would not have come to power.
>
>Steve
Yes, you've already said that. The diction is confused, and I generally
just don't know what you mean. "Allende would have been overthrown"??? He
was. That's how Pinochet came to power. I wasn't aware the Red Army did
it, though. I was always under the impression it was the Chilean armed
forces, with considerable help from the CIA. But if I was wrong, I guess
we can let ITT and Kissinger off the hook, and blame those nasty Soviets.
Honestly, I just don't get this post.
"...all truly great scientific abstractions are both universal and simple.
They are simple not because they explain so little but because they explain
so much. Generality does not arise because an abstraction represents
everything that could possibly happen, but because it remains valid no
matter what happens."
Alan Freeman
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