.......except that Cuban medical relief to New Orleans could have
been a genuine, substantial, and welcome boon, whereas no good
could have come from shipping Baseeji troops to Britain.
 			Chandler


On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Larry Romsted wrote:

> Reminiscent of Cuba offering to send doctors to New Orleans after Hurricane
> Katrina.
>
> Larry
>
> From:  Kamran Nayeri <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To:  Science for the People Discussion List
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:  Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:44:09 -0700
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> Subject:  Islamic Republic asks the UN to send peace keeping forces to
> Britain, offers to send armed Baseejis
>
> BBC reports
> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2011/08/110811_l33_iran_uk_military_riots
> _escalation.shtml?s>  the president of Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud
> Ahmadinejad, has asked the United Nations to send to Britain peace keeping
> forces to protect civilians attacked by the British police.  The commander
> of Baseeji (Mobilization) forces of Islamic Republic has offered to send
> some of its units as part of such peace keeping force.  The United Nations
> Security Council has a long history of authorizing  "peace keeping" forces
> to be sent to various countries around the world to protect civilians, etc.
>
> This propaganda campaign by the Islamic Republic of Iran has the merit of of
> showing how the shoe can be on the other foot. Sadly, large majority of the
> people of the Western nations, including some socialist minded
> currents/individuals, are so do used to the prevailing imperialist culture
> that they support imperialist intervention for various "humanitarian" or
> other reasons but will find a parallel position coming from governments of
> the South unimaginable.
>
> Kamran
>
>
>