Serbia

[Jim heartfield]

In message <36C0EF65.5A9199C2 at lor.net>, Tom Lehman <TLEHMAN at lor.net>
writes
>It's interesting that Christopher Hitchens beat the Nation's drum for
>sending American troops into Bosnia.  I'm still convinced that he and
>Mr.Blumenthal will have enough money after their little spat to open a
>nation wide chain of Tuxedo stores---Chris and Sid's Formal Wear.

That's my point of departure from the Hitchens camp - not the other
thing.

In 1993 I was at a conference in New York on some anti-war campaign. In
the middle of it all the announcement that Clinton had bombed the Serbs
roused a cheer! (Granted it was a fairly token bombing) Self-avowed
'social-imperialist' Christopher Hitchens rallied the cause of
progressive militarism, arguing for US intervention in Haiti and Bosnia.

I don't think you have to be a genius to work out that, however bad a
regime, the US - or UK - military is not an honest broker. What the
Serbs are doing in Kosovo is vicious and destructive, but the it is
noticeable that no government authority supports independence. Maybe
they did learn something from the Bosnia debacle.
-- 
Jim heartfield