: A test; let's see if the IMF (one such NGO) is actually willing to risk destabilizing the Indonesian economy (with all the knock-on financial effects) in order to preserve human rights in East Timor; it is pretty much indisputable that pro-Indonesian Muslim militias are trying to kill as many of the pro-independence Catholics as possible; and that the Indonesian army is standing by and letting it happen. : If the US Government is actually willing to contribute men and materiel to an international peacekeeping force (as Europe and Australia are asking), despite the adverse effects it would have on the US economy, I'll accept that the US Government is not controlled by the US corporate. If the US sticks to the weak line that it is Indonesia's business to intervene, not the West's, thus allowing obvious genocide to continue, I'll maintain that the US Government is more concerned of its own industry than it is with democracy or human rights.
: Rex, McSpotlight.
: (Speaking for myself here, rather than for McSpotlight as a whole)
But Rex if the U.S. goes in and helps East Timor then later we will be criticized for going into yet another country and meddling and making things worse by trying to help.
