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- From: Andrew Lang <lang@igc.apc.org>
- Subject: Protest US Troops to Somalia
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.042003.15050@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:20:03 GMT
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- /* Written 5:32 pm Dec 13, 1992 by peacenet@igc.apc.org in igc:pn.alerts */
- /* ---------- "Protest US Troops to Somalia" ---------- */
- From: <peacenet>
- Subject: Protest US Troops to Somalia
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- From sjuniper Sat Dec 12 13:52:37 1992
- From: Steve Juniper <sjuniper>
-
- Opposition to the US intervention days discredits progressive
- thinking and action. Protesting US "intervention" in Somalia
- and/or characterizing it as "only acceptable because the (largely
- black) US Marine Corps and Army doesn't mind shooting blacks" is
- cockamamie.
-
- I took particular note of the fact that most or all of the people
- I have heard opposing US action there are armchair activists at a
- comfortable distance from the Horn of Africa. Aid officials I
- have heard who speak from six months or more of current
- experience there all basically support the move.
-
- Sure, we should have done more a long time ago, and we should act
- more as part of an international body than as cowboys, and of
- course we are at least partly responsible for the situation
- there. There are many things I would do, or have done,
- differently, but what is important now is to try to get the
- forces involved to make the best of the situation, rather than to
- just install another Mobutu or Barre.
-
- Everyone from George Bush to Howard Zinn agree that something had
- to be done, and I shared Boutros-Ghali's criticism that the West
- was focussing on white Yugoslavia while ignoring black Somalia,
- and for several years have been doing what little I could to
- encourage action. The forces there are tools that could be used
- well or poorly, and it is extremely unlikely that they could make
- matters any worse.
-
- Best wishes,
-
- Steve
-