parting gesture, is threatening to bomb Iraq again. His logic, and that of his flunkeys in the United Nations Security Council, is absurd. The US has declared a 'no fly' zone in southern Iraq; Iraqis have put groundbased missiles on their own territory, which is of course 'a threat to the US.
This comes at a time when the US is engaged in a gigantic international military effort.
Somalia, a huge fleet sails off the coast of Yugoslavia and the bombers in Saudi Arabia and the Tomahawk missiles on US ships in the Gulf are prepared again.
The targets are ideologically well-chosen. genocidal despot, Somalia is is the victim of Serb 'ethnic cleansis and worse the cavalry to enforce the New World Order of peace and justice.
Or so it seems to those who facts. The Us intervention in Somalia is aimed at confrontdamentalism in the Horn of Africa. The US would love to enforce a military presence in eastern Europe. And pressure on Saddam serves to buttress and strengthen the pro-us reactionary alliance in the Middle East.
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Contrast this willingness to intervene in defence of peace' and 'justice with the role of the US over the 400 Palestinians expelled by Israel, stranded on the freezing mountains of the Lebanese border.
It is the US which has wielded the big stick, publicly and privately, against any attempt to get the UN to act on the issue Peace and justice Bush style is highly selective.
But there is little point in trying to judge US intervention "issue-by-issue'. The pattern of Us intarvention is unmistakeable; emboldened by its success in the Gult war the US is Bosnia, Somalia, next stop the Guil? accustoming the world to the persistence of its overseas military interventions.
This is part of the long-term strategic game that Globocop is playing. US economic strength is declining and com petition with Japan and Germany worsening. World-wide military intervention is the one weapon which Globocop can wield that no other imperialist diplomatie, poitical and des can match. And with it timately economic gains.
At the same time, left-wing and anti-imperialist opposition to US intervention is at a rock-bottom low. The movement against the Gulf war was tradition of opposition to imperialist military adventures must be rebuilt.
From that perspective, the left has to wage a battle against illusions that Western interwill problems of the masses in any Blitzing Irag didn't remove Saddam, it inflicted untold suffering on the Iraqi and Kurdish What is stifling the ability of the people of Bosnia to resist ethnic cleansing and mass rape, is not the lack of American marines, but the Western-imposed arms embargo that hits Bosnia but has little effect in Belgrade.
The flurry of US military activity in the last days of the to signify an attempt.to straichtiacket Clinton. mitting him to a series of foreign interventions. Maybe. But Clinton has dissented from not one of Bush's overseas adventures; there will be no change in US militarism from that quant. No. 35 January 16, 1993 Page 3
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