[PEN-L:4643] Re: Re: War & 'Public Relations,' or, 'Kuwaiti Babi

["Paul Phillips" <phillp2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barkley,

Let me ask you the question.  Should the Serbs retreat and stop
trying to oust the KLA and their Albanian supporters?  You realize I
know that that would bring about the extermination of the Serbs in
Kosovo.  Once the bombing started what alternative did the Serbs
have?

Paul
Paul Phillips,
Economics,
University of Manitoba


> From:          "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>
> To:            <lbo-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc:            <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject:       [PEN-L:4638] Re: War & 'Public Relations,' or, 'Kuwaiti Babies Torn fromIncubators'
> Date:          Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:54:04 -0500
> Reply-to:      pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> Yoshie,
>      I am someone who opposes the US actions in
> Kosovo and who (unfortunately accurately) forecast
> that the bombing would bring about the very humanitarian
> catastrophe that it was allegedly implemented to prevent.
> I also agree with much of your analysis of the reasons
> for the disintegration of Yugoslavia and exaggerated
> reporting of atrocities in various cases.
>      But, are you going to suggest that the reports we
> are now getting of mass emigration from Kosovo are
> inaccurate?  Does the bombing actually justify the horrific
> actions that Milosevic is now carrying out, even if the
> reporting of them might be somewhat exaggerated?
>      It is one thing to forecast a catastrophe.  It is quite
> another to applaud it or to attempt to justify it.  I do
> not applaud any of the parties in this particular tragedy,
> and I certainly don't view Milosevic as some sort of hero.
> Barkley Rossre
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