[Peace-discuss] Just [sic] Foreign Policy

[Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

If the group were in fact interested in a *just* US foreign policy, it would call for a end to Obama's bombing and drone attacks - and for the withdrawal of US troops, 'special forces,' and mercs from the Mideast. 

But I don't expect that.  --CGE   

On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:23 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:

> I focused, in my last rereadingof this, on the title of the organization
> Naiman speaks for:
> 
> *****
>> Robert Naiman
>> Policy Director
>> Just Foreign Policy ****
> 
> The premise of that title, *** Just Foreign Policy ****
> is as deeply incoherent as would be, for example, A Nazi Institute for the
> Preservation of Jewish Culture*
> 
> U.S. foreign policy, by definition, is deeply antagonistic to the interests
> of the world's peoples. How can _any_ policy adopted by the U.S. government
> be "just"? Absurd.
> 
> This, I think, explains the comments of Carl and Michael  Yates on Naimon's
> red-baiting style: he is attempting to defend the indefensible.
> 
> Carrol