RE: John Rawls on Just War

[phillp2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (ts99u-2.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.225]) by]

In deference to Rick's request to take this 'debate' (sic) off the list, I
will not respond to this nonsense nor return to the subject,
whatever the provocation.

However, I am interested in following Barkley's suggestion that we
look at the economic context behind the invasion, in particular the
role of the IMF and WB in destabilizing the Yugoslav economy
beginning with the IMF interventions from 1980 on.  Also, of some
interest to the list should be the proposal for a "Balkan Marshall
Plan" that has recently been floated by, I believe, the WB.

If no one else is interested or if Rick thinks this will only lead to
uninformed flaming, I would be happy to take it to another list were
the subject is seriously discussed.

Paul Phillips,
Economics,
University of Manitoba

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> At 10:59 PM 6/1/99 +0000, Paul Phillips wrote:
> >What seems to be ignored in this is the fact that there was no ethnic
> >cleansing in Kosovo, no genocide,  not atrocities, until NATO began
> >its bombing campaign.  The ethnic cleansing was caused by the NATO
> >action -- and would cease with an end to the bombing.
>
> The June issue of Harper's magazine, which I have already referred to,
> reprints a statement by Serbia's deputy prime minister Vojislav Seselj from
> 1995, explaining how the ethnic Albaninan majority is to be driven from
> Kosovo.
>
> I think this is enough to point out the naivete of thinking that everything
> was fine before the bombing, and will be fine if we just stop.  In fact,
> there has been a ten-year campaign by the Serbs against the Kosovars, which
> has now erupted into open war.
>