I'm sorry for my garbled post which may have been difficult to decipher as it appeared. Below is a legible version: Robin Hahnel wrote: > > 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 that helps > Americans understand why many in the rest of the world regard US > government claims that the US government is motivated by humanitarian aims rather >than > the aims of empire with a great deal of skepticism. Namely, BASED UPON OUR >COMPLETELY CONSISTENT TRACK RECORD OF > ALWAYS CLAIMING HUMANITARIAN GOALS BUT IN FACT CREATING MAHEM ENTAILING HUMAN AND >ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER, ALL THE WHILE STRENGTHENING US MILITARY AND SOMETIMES ALSO >ECONOMIC > HEGEMONY, the US government is difficult to take at its word! I know you can find >the details of the track record on a > number of excellent web sites these days -- including ZNet.
