And socialist property.
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From: William Meecham <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] Bombs and the ad campaign, and bomb those socialists


>Re the below, it is significant that  prime NATO target has
>been socialist headquarters.
>wcm
>>
>> Brett Murphy writes:
>> > I am saying what is the good of supporting NATO when it is by
>> > definition an organisation set up during the period of
>> > anti-communist paranoia? That is why there is no point in supporting
>> > NATO.
>>
>> The reason to support NATO (not the bombing but the NATO structure) is
>> that the UN structure will never work as long as a subset of the
>> members each has the veto power.  The veto power cripples the decision
>> making authority of the organization.  In this case it would be China
>> and Russia that would veto the action, and maybe it should be vetoed,
>> but in the majority of cases it would be the US vetoing the action, in
>> recent times on behalf of Israel or, of course, itself.  How many
>> years ago would Palestine have become an independent state were it not
>> for the US veto?  I think that problem would have been worked out long
>> ago, but it would probably have required some kind of military threat
>> or economic thread against Israel to do it, and that calls for a
>> decision making structure that can't be derailed by one nation.  The
>> NATO structure is a better structure for such problems.
>>
>> martin
>>
>> Martin Smith                    Email: [log in to unmask]
>> P.O. Box 1034 Bekkajordet       Tel. : +47 330 35700
>> N-3194 HORTEN, Norway           Fax. : +47 330 35701
>>
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