[Marxism] Tariq Ali

[abu hartal <abuhartal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,
So we are agreed that Power and Malcolm must be criticized for whitewashing the 
effects of the NATO bombings. You seem to think that Milosevic would not have 
driven hundreds of thousands of Albanians from their homes had NATO not struck. 
You say that he did not have the support to do it, but we are agreed that he 
had just driven 300,000 people from their homes which were then burned and 
looted, and you don't deny that there had been a  a build-up of Serb forces, 
the introduction of paramilitaries to the region, and a new integration of 
police and military units, designed specifically for operations against the 
civilian population. And the quickness and ferocity of his expulsion campaign 
after the bombing began all but shows that he was already all but prepared to 
continue the ethnocide. All of this is actively ignored by the thinkers at New 
Left Review, Monthly Review and Zmag net, and I would love to be proven 
otherwise. So far no one has done that.  These thinkers also all tell us that 
Milosevic could have been negotiated with to respect the autonomy of Kosova as 
if any such agreement would have been worth the paper it was written on. 
There were no easy answers, and I think you are making the situation seem less 
complicated than it was by insisting that Milosevic was all but done driving 
people out of Kosova before the bombing began.
A Hartal



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