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From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 22:42:16 -0400
Brad Stroud wrote:
>It always seems easier to start somewhere else then in one's own backyard
>yes? That might actually require admitting we are not the staunch and
>relentless defenders of human rights we like to make ourselves out to be.
>True we must start somewhere. But when the war is over and a military
>presence is in Kosovo for the next decade or so to enforce human rights will
>we then turn toward our own marginalized, disenfranchised and abused (For
>Canada a start would be the Aboriginal Peoples, for America a start would be
>both African-Americans and Native-Americans I presume) and do the same?
Isn't it amazing that the U.S. is prosecuting an allegedly anti-genocidal
war with Tomahawks and Apaches?
Doug