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Per-Anders Svärd <[log in to unmask]>
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The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky
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Mon, 17 Jul 2000 04:08:56 +0200
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>> This makes our task clear: we need to make our people understand that
NATO
>> is the military arm of an unjust, undemocratic and destructive economic
>> globalization.
>Except when it *doesn't* intervene somewhere (such as Rwanda), in which
case
>we must switch horses and bray loudly at it for not doing so, even though,
>by the premise just enunciated, it CAN'T do anything other than foment evil
>wherever it goes.

Precisely, Tresy. The very fact that it *doesn't* manage to intervene when
intervention is really needed would in my view serve to underpin the charges
of structural evil in NATO (and the U.S.-led geopolitical system as such).
Why
shouldn't it? In the words of Spiderman: "With great powers comes comes
great responsibility." I fail to see why the leaders of the U.S. and NATO be
an exception to that moral rule?

/PeA

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