Re: Re: Thatcher and nationalism

["Paul Phillips" <phillp2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12 Sep 00, at 22:58, Ken Hanly wrote:

 Of course often
> interventions are justified by rhetoric that claims we cannot stand by and
> let certain things happen such as the Serb expulsion of Kosovans from
> Kosova, but surely  someone of your sophistication cannot accept this
> nonsense at face value.To a considerable extent the expulsions were a
> predictable result of NATO's own actions. The resulting actions themselves
> involved war crimes, killing of the innocent etc. and did little in the
> short term to stop the expulsions since


It is interesting that, according to all reports, there was no
substance to the ethnic cleansing by Serbs allegations prior to the
NATO bombing but there has been massive ethnic cleansing,
killing, beating and torture and expulsions by the KLA not only of
Serbs, but also of Roma, Egyptians, Catholic Albanians, Jews,
Albanians who wanted to stay in Yugoslavia or who would not join
the KLA -- with the assistance and connivance of the American and
German NATO troups in KFOR who reportedly confisticated Serb
arms and gave them to the KLA to drive out all but the KLA
Albanians.  I would be more impressed by Brad's 'nutso' bluster if
he concentrated in clearing up the gorrillas in America before
picking on those in the imperialized periphery.

Paul Phillips,
Economics,
University of Manitoba