RE: John Rawls on Just War

["Paul Phillips" <phillp2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You just don't get it do you.  I repeat, there was no ethnic
cleansing in Kosovo before the bombing.  The Canadian head of the
Verification force in the Kosovo Polje region has stated
categorically that he never saw, nor ever heard of a single case of
ethnic cleasing of Albanians from Kosovo up to the time the
verification force left to avoid the bombing.

>Because Milosovics tactics have been to clean an
> area out and then negotiate for peace with the 'unsettled' territory
> going to him.

This is absolute nonsense.  There has not been any ethnic cleansing
in Serbia or Yugoslavia except in Kosovo by the Albanian Kosovar's
against the Serbs.

I would suggest you get your facts straight before making such  lofty
judgements.

Paul Phillips,
Economics,
University of Manitoba


> Date:          Wed, 2 Jun 1999 11:57:54 -0400
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> From:          Brian Considine <bconsidi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject:       RE: John Rawls on Just War
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> 		How did the NATO bombing cause the genocide?  When Hitler
> bombed London, I don't believe that this caused the British to set up
> concentration camps for the Irish?  Why would Milosovic start ethnic
> cleansing against the Kosovo's because NATO attacked him with the pretense
> of protecting the Kosovos?  Because Milosovics tactics have been to clean an
> area out and then negotiate for peace with the 'unsettled' territory going
> to him.
>
> 		I will accept that the NATO bombing may have caused him to
> accelerate the cleansing of Kosovo.  But ending the bombing and starting
> negotiations would only allow him to complete his cleansing.  Then what
> would the refugees return too?  Destroyed homes in a state policed by the
> same country that drove them across the border.  No sane refugee would
> return to that and Milosovic will find, once again, that ethnic cleansing is
> a very efficient method for acquiring real estate.
>