---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine
to the Editor:
When we signed the charter of the United Nations, we pledged ourselves to the national self-determination of peoples. In the middle of the twentieth century, that led to the dismantling of empires from a previous age, and to the creation of many of the current member states of the U.N. General Assembly. That charter is still in effect. Although we have often ignored it--most pointedly in the case of the Tibetans--we violate our own treaty obligations when we oppose a people's national self-determination. Now in the twenty-first century, we may want to renegotiate this treaty in light of our country's own imperial ambitions. Until we do, we cannot legitimately oppose the Kosovar Albanians' quest for freedom.
Barry Levine
1142 Brown Avenue
Lafayette, CA 94549
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