The way Western leftists talk about the rest of the world, those who hear them (if anyone hears them) would probably think, hey, why not let Washington invade any country it likes anyhow? There is nothing there to defend. -- Yoshie
This is a real slap in the face to somebody like myself who spent the better part of the 1980s working against US intervention first in El Salvador and then in Nicaragua. There was no Internet at the time so I didn't have the opportunity to send out e-mail everyday speaking on behalf of what the Central American masses really and truly wanted in their heart of hearts. Well, I was tuned into what they really wanted but it was usually something mundane like an engineer who could keep the power grid in Managua working. You see how Yoshie stubbornly insists on using this provocative term? It is really a way to chill debate rather than encourage it. This is obviously where she picked up this bad habit: http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2001/msg03712.htm Debating China with the Western left is very frustrating, because the Western left is not the enemy, despite the fact that it increasingly acts like one. I do not share the Western left's celebration of the fall of the USSR and Eastern European socialist states, however distorted they might have become before their demise. Henry C.K. Liu
