On 10/25/06, Daniel Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm a Western leftist (of an admittedly rather odd sort) and surely the main, the only reason for being opposed to Western imperialist wars is that they kill people, in their hundreds of thousands, for no good purpose whatever.
After Iraq, they will think that for a while (I hope), just as they did after Vietnam, but that's not always true: e.g., East Timor, Yugoslavia, etc. Deaths resulted, but not so many as to make people think twice about the next invasion. IMHO, even Saddam Hussein's government provided things to Iraqis that were worth defending. Even more so in the case of what the Iranian government provides for Iranians. But listening to what Western leftists, who all enjoy the benefits of living under functioning governments that provide them with many things on which they depend, one gets an impression that what functioning governments in the rest of the world (with possible exceptions of Cuba and Venezuela depending on what kind of leftists they are) provide to their respective citizens are basically less than nothing and are not worth defending at all. Western leftists, however, are not in a position to provide to the rest of the world what their functioning governments provide, some well, some badly, in the event they get destroyed by Western invasions, economic sanctions, and so forth. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
