Re: Questions on the Yugoslav Uncivil War

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You wrote:
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>It seems to me that the imperialist intervention has only come about,
now
>that all sides are thoroughly sick of the war, and when it had begun
to
>peter out on its own.
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    Carlos:
    Isn't it the old fashion way. If It would be of its own choice, the
    US will get involved in wars once the opponents are sufficiently
    bloodied as to spend little and win the credits.  Of course, this
    was not always possible and/or the US missread the internal
    situation in a given country.

    You wrote:
>Given the fact that nearly half of Serbia was opposed to the war, and
that
>there were anti-war movements in each country to greater and lesser
>extents, how much do you think that the intervention has to do with
>keeping the population "in-line" rather than the combatants apart?
>
    Carlos:
    I think a lot has to do with it.  But even if it wasn't there is
    no valid reason not to opposse the US intervention (and NATO!)


    You wrote:
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>*If* there is no mass movement in FY opposing intervention, upon what
>basis can we, in the NATO nations, fight it?
>
    Carlos:
    On the basis of the principple that *any and all* imperialist
    interventions will put double chains in the neck of occuppied
    nations.  That of their local, domestic rulers and that of the
    invading imperialist armies.

    That's what happened in Haiti, Yugoeslavia and elsewhere. Some
    people felt compelled to support Croats (led by a right wing
    regime) or Bosnia (Muslim's religious regime) or Serbia (a
    right wing nationalist regime) over other sectors of Yugoeslavia.
    They all looked for the *just* side in a war that have none (they
    are all reactionaries regimes) and because they *do not have to
    spill their blood* defending any of those reactionary regimes they
    picked.  They all forgot that you may support nobody in a war and
    that you may advocate the overthrown of all of them as the only
    just course in a war such as the one in Yugoeslavia.

    I'm for either the withdrawal of US/NATO troops now or their
    military oblitaration.

    Comradely,
    Carlos





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