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...other words, if the U.S. took military action on behalf of the Bosnian Muslims, it would not be interpreted by you as some imperialist plot...
Widespread anger has erupted on campus over Colin Powell's opposition to overturning the military's long-standing ban on gays. As Marxists, we oppose anti-gay bigotry in all spheres of life, including the military. However, many supporters of gay rights are eagerly enlisting in the cause of imperialist militarism, which is a threat to all of the oppressed, especially now with the U.S. RACIST "White man's burden" intervention in Somalia and as Clinton gears up for terror bombing in the Balkans...
Phillips says the book's tone differs markedly from what he'd originally intended. When he conceived of the two characters, it seemed obvious to him which would emerge as the more sympathetic. Emily, filled with the racist and imperialist nations of her nation and era, was to be "okay, but, you know, a bit of a dick head at the end of the day;" Cambridge's final section would respond with a triumphant, militant condemnation of her arrogance, "kind of 'oh me, oh my, what a terrible institution this is, how dare they?;'" Phillips says...
...craves it. But Phillips refrains from easing the tension of the narrative, instead depicting two characters much more ambiguous in their views on race, slavery and one another. In the book's final version, Emily's bigotry is accompanied by doubt and fear; and Cambridge is not the anti-imperialist freedom fighter we expect, but a complicated man who resents not only his own enslavement, but also being forced to live among the "heathens" who are his fellow slaves...
...name is Achmed," read the article. "While fighting against the Zionist state, my commanding officer approached me and asked me to drive a truck full of explosives into a barracks full of imperialist United States forces. But I did not know how to drive stick. My brother Harouk took the mission, but I would have gladly died for the struggle...