Posts by Neil Morrison
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Actually Neil it's a part of a fact somewhat misrepresented:
The US stopped Melosevic. It's a fact. No misrepresentation .Of course there are still plenty of left-wing sites that saw and still see this as merely US imperialism. But lucky for the people of Bosnia and Kosovo Clinton took no notice.
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I suggest you do it based on facts.
Holbrooke was instrumental in stopping Milosevic, that's a fact.
Any reference for Holbrooke being part of the Phoenix Program?
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Yes. I forgot that Jimmy Carter has long been a destroyer of human rights as well documented by various left wing web sites. Much like Obama now.
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You do realise he was the principal person responsible for making sure that the US congress turn a blind eye to the massacres in East Timor, yes?
The Indonesian invasion was in 1975, Holbrooke joined Jimmy Carter's administration in 1977.
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Richard Holbrooke is one of many examples of how the US has been a force for good.
I find it very reassuring that Obama has such people handling foreign policy.
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He said he did not know the reasons behind the allegations but added that he had "been warned that, for example, the Pentagon plans to use dirty tricks to spoil things for [WikiLeaks]".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/22/wikileaks-julian-assange-denies-rape-allegations
there's plenty of links to similar statements. Assange and his legal team have been trying to discredit the two women. It's really not worth trying to deny what is true and what there is plenty of evidence for. He's a creep.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Such as?
we're not going to agree I think. I'll try and come up with some specifics after dinner.
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Can I just point out that it's entirely possible that the accusations against him are in fact false and vexatious?
yes it is possible and it is possible that they are false and vexatious and also not part of a CIA conspiracy as Assange and his legal team allege. An allegation as preposterous as it is self-serving.
But still, at this particular historical time, to argue that WikiLeaks in some form of other in not something that we need would be extraordinary.
we have elections, Obama won. There was a substantial peaceful change in the direction of US politics. Nothing to do with WikiLeaks.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
I’m currently in the US on a Fulbright scholarship...
"'Harvard's there for other reasons. The "educating" part of it is just sort of a front'"
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it’s the whole bloody point.
yes, I gather that. I had thought that leaks were supposed to be justified by having specific significant goals. If the aim is to prevent all confidentiality then I think that's not something I support.