Re: new immanence - Chirac cheats!

Dear Yurek,

I really wish I coould agree with your diagnosis, but I don't.  It seems to me 
that the European 'peace movement' is nothing more than fluke.  Where was 
Chirac during the Kosovo crisis? Ordering his planes to bomb civilian tragets 
in Yugoslavia.  Chirac is no pacifist, and I can bet my mortgage over this: as 
war on Irak will be declared, the French are going to be right in it, bombing 
as they did in Kosovo and in the first Gulf war.  The Germans and the French 
are just trying to ride a wave of popular sentiment which is totally 
ephemeric...again, were well all this pacifists during the Kosovo war (the 
most blatant violation of international law ever since the concept was 
embedded in the UN.  It is amazing how stupid people are some times - if we 
talk about a war for months and take it to the UN they complain, if we just 
decided to bomb...well, that seems to be just fine

Damian Popolo
PhD candidate
Newcastle University
Department of Politics
Room 301