Re: Re: Milosevic out?

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wrote:
> > The protestors -- who seemed to have come from all major classes,
> > unlike previous anti-Milosevic waves, which were primarily based in
> > the urban middle classes -- were fighting the Yugoslav government, led
> > by a man who had committed the ultimate sin among nationalists, i.e.,
> > losing a war.

Néstor writes:
> A gross mistake and a gross underrating of the ability of the masses
> to understand when they lose a war because they cannot do otherwise.

In this specific case, the people seem to have blamed Milosevic (correctly
or not, but they were admittedly encouraged to do so by the US & NATO, etc.)

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine