Re: M-TH: Hot Pursuit

1999-10-03 Thread George Pennefather
Hi Rob, Your reply is appreciated. Dont think because I dont always reply I dont read any stfuff you post. Warm regards George Pennefather Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank web site at http://homepage.tinet.ie/~beprepared/ G'day George, Yep. I have to agree. Canberra is going wi

Re: M-TH: Hot Pursuit

1999-10-03 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day George, Yep. I have to agree. Canberra is going with the military on tactics, and with the Yanks on strategy. 0/2 for mine. We're busy making something that could have worked quite nicely into something that might well get very ugly for all involved. To torture an old Australian insult

M-TH: Hot Pursuit

1999-10-03 Thread George Pennefather
Canberra's "hot pursuit" statement concerning invasions into West Timor ties in with the views I have expressed concerning the imperialist invasion of East Timor leading to the conflict widening to increasingly include all of Timor. As I have already said the situation is more complicated tha

M-TH: Indonesia and Washington

1999-10-03 Thread George Pennefather
The fact that Washington dithered over the East Timorese crisis and eventually backed an force entering Timor to stabilise the situation may be understood as a signal from Washington that East Timor is not at the top of its agenda. If one looks at the totally different way in which Washington

M-TH: Gurkhas

1999-10-03 Thread George Pennefather
The deployment of the Ghurkhas in East Timor by London illustrates their use in disguising the aggressive nature of British imperialism. Since they are Asian they present an image of being on the side of the oppressed masses. It is like sending an ethnically Irish regiment of the British Army