From: Paul Zarembka (zarembka@buffalo.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 12:41:20 EST
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, mongiovg wrote: > This is mind-boggling, and, for me, as disturbing as any recent > development connected with the Iraq situation. One need not be a > romantic about the Atlantic alliance, or its members, to think that > the Bush government's attempt to demonize France & Germany to the > American public is reckless and dangerous. These countries share a > commitment to values that are indispensable to global peace and > prosperity: democracy, human and civil rights, free speech, rule of > law--the whole Enlightenment thing. ... Wow, this idealization of the French and German governments is unbelievable (and romantic). Of course, the 'freedom' fries is also unbelievable, but let's get just a shade critical and consider material motives for these bourgeois countries' behaviors. Paul *********************************************************************** "Confronting 9-11, Ideologies of Race, and Eminent Economists", Vol. 20 RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, Paul Zarembka, editor, Elsevier Science ******************** http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka
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