Gar Lipow wrote: > I think the critical points to make over and over again are that > A) The U.S., in attacking Yugoslavia is committing atrocities of it's > own. > B) It is creating situations where worse atrocities are happening > since the war than before the war started. > C) It has not prevented a single atrocity to date, is unlikely to > prevent any atrocities in the future, and is likely to continue to > cause atrocities in the future. > > Other points -- U.S. hypocrisy in selecting targets, the U.S.'s own > record, U.S. violation of international law are important, but are > secondary points. > > Maybe I'm all wet on this; if so tell me why. I'm going to be writing > up a short pamphlet. Glad to hear you're writing a pamphlet. The above sounds excellent to me. The only other thing I would recommend adding is material the helps Americans understand why many in the rest of the world regard US government claims that we are motivated by humanitarian aims rather than the aims of empire BASED UPON OUR COMPLETELY CONSISTENT TRACK RECORD OF ALWAYS CLAIMING HUMANITARIAN GOALS BUT IN FACT CREATING HUMANITARIAN MAHEM WHILE STRENGTHENING US MILITARY AND SOMETIMES ALSO ECONOMIC HEGEMONY. I know you can find the details of the track record on a number of excellent web sites these days -- including ZNet.
