Re: [A-List] Yugoslavia: Louis Proyect analysis 5

["Michael Keaney" <michael.keaney@xxxxxx>]

Lou Proyect writes:


If there is one continuing theme in Diana Johnstone's "Fool's Crusade," it
is how florid sounding phraseology about peace, civil society and human
rights became the cover for the first war on European soil since the defeat
of Hitler. Ironically, as she points out in Chapter Four (Making of
Empires), the impetus for this war came from the new Germany itself.

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This is interesting, because in the US the impetus came from certain members
of Clinton's national security advisory apparatus, in particular Ivo
Daalder. I wrote about this in connection with the sudden British switch on
Yugoslavia, coinciding with the election victory of Blair in 1997.

See http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/a-list/2002w26/msg00067.htm

Michael Keaney