Re: [A-List] Why NATO bombed Serb TV

[craig duncan <craig-duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nestor Gorojovsky wrote:
> My apologies to maggie on "us" and "them".  And of course the
> circumstances aroun M. kidnapping won't be discussed as long as they
> have the winning hand in this game.
>
> However, I would like to know what are the opinions on the list as
> regards my general comment, that EU liberals, social-democrats and
> imperialists in general did not care too much about Yugoslavia and
> Milosevic because the whole thing was the last scene in the drama
> that had begun the fateful day when the Social Democrat legislators
> voted the war credits in 1914.  An European civil war of sorts was
> under way, and it closed (for the time being, as Chávez said in 1992)
> with a defeat for us in Yugoslavia.

I can't speak very knowledgably regarding the European view, but i don't think
i buy the generalization... because the U.S. (although certainly not alone)
was instrumental (even before 1990, but escalating after the dissolution of
the S.U.) in the economic (and ultimately military) attack on Yugoslavia.  For
this reason alone your thesis seems like it couldn't possibly be more than
just a part of the story.  And given the general dominance of U.S. foreign
policy, probably only a small part (although i do think that Germany played a
larger role in this than is usual for Europe).