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- From: orwell@reg.triumf.ca (BALDEN, RON)
- Newsgroups: alt.activism.d
- Subject: Re: A pacifist's call for conditional support for US action in Somalia
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 13:38 PST
- Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
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- In article <JMC.92Dec23010318@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>, [John McCarthy]
- jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes...
- > ...
- >Please explain about the U.S. invasion of South Korea. Does even Noam
- >Chomsky say that? I thought North Korea invaded South Korea. This
- >was confirmed in the last installment of Khrushchev's memoirs and also
- >by Russian historians even before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- >I would be interested in a reference to a body of literature, however
- >leftist, claiming that.
-
- Well, John, what do you call it when massive military forces of a foreign
- power occupy the land area of another country (with, perhaps, the fig leaf
- of being "asked in" by a government with no popular legitimacy) --
- a tea party? I call the Russian invasion of Afghanistan an invasion;
- I call the U.S. invasion of South Korea an invasion.
-
- Ron Balden
-