bouncing ethnicity

[Carl Remick]

> Every evidence is that the result we have seen in the last 
> week would have
> been accomplished over the next few months absent the 
> bombing.  This is of
> course exactly the point most likely to be disputed by some 
> who thought
> negotiations could bear fruit, but if you believe Milosevic 
> was bent on
> ethnic clensing, then the advantage of the bombing is that it 
> turned what
> had been many individual refugee stories over time into a single
> geopolitical fact of a whole nation seeking refugee status 
> and demanding
> return of its land.   The real danger for the Kosovan 
> Albanians were that
> they would disappear off the geopolitical stage into a few 
> hundred thousand
> individual stories, never to be heard of again except in 
> anthropologies of
> refugee migration and resettlement.

This is all conjecture.  The principal fact remains:  The bombing turned
a bad situation into a total catastrophe.

Carl Remick