Re: John Rawls on Just War

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This fact has been verified by a number of independent sources.

Henry C.K. Liu

Paul Phillips wrote:

> 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
> > Reply-to:      pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > From:          Brian Considine <bconsidi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To:            POST-KEYNESIAN THOUGHT <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject:       RE: John Rawls on Just War
> > X-To:          "'pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >               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.
> >