>perhaps we need to shift our attention, as Dennis and some others have
>been advising, from the US and 'the Balkans' to Europe and, following
>Balibar, to think of the ways in which this war is that which will
>finally provide Europe (an idealised and hence racialised Europe) with
>its millennial and violent birth.
>
>what better way to enact this idealised community than through a
>shared sacrifice on the battlefield and a shared racism.
But the war is being prosecuted not by an EU body but by NATO, a US-dominated body - a deliberate poke not only in the UN's eye, but in the eye of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. I thought the EU was meant to provide a political counter to US domination; if the war is part of this agenda, they're going about it in a funny way.
Doug