Re: Gurkhas

|The deployment of the Ghurkhas in East Timor by London illustrates their 
|use
|in disguising the aggressive nature of British imperialism. Since they are
|Asian they present an image of being on the side of the oppressed masses. 
|It
|is like sending an ethnically Irish regiment of the British Army into
|Northern Ireland.

Khm.

Not quite. It is like sending an ethnically Polish regiment of the British
Army (or, more realistically, of NATO) into Northern Ireland. (The Gurkhas
are about as "local" to East Timor as a regiment from Lublin would be for 
Belfast. Hint: not really...)

Jozsef Borocz